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Firmware Engineer II applicants have rated the interview process at SanDisk with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Firmware Engineer II roles take an average of 37 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SanDisk overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at SanDisk as a Firmware Engineer II according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Background check: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at SanDisk (Milpitas, CA) in May 2014
Interview
2 rounds of phone interview
1 on site interview
There was a phone screen by the recruiter
Then there were 2 phone interviews, went over my projects. They asked some questions related those projects which overlapped with the work that they were doing. Embedded systems related basic questions.
On-site interview consisted of 6-7 interviews including lunch interview which was technical.
1. Writing a for loop in assembly
2. debugging c code
3. basics of embedded c, pointer dereferencing, debugging techniques
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Low level questions related to Embedded C
1. Debugging C code
2. Figuring out what assembly code is doing
3. Pointer dereferencing, when to qualify variables as volatile
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at SanDisk
Interview
Only C programming , bitwise operators , string problems , linked list problems ,
about the project few questions were there.
Only C programming , bitwise operators , string problems , linked list problems ,
about the project few questions were there