Firmware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Seagate Technology with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 82% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Firmware Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 11 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Seagate Technology overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Seagate Technology as a Firmware Engineer according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 21%
One on one interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 18%
Skills test: 13%
Background check: 8%
Presentation: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Personality test: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Seagate Technology (Shakopee, MN) in Apr 2018
Interview
Got a call from a recruiter for basic phone screening followed by call interview with Sr. Manager. He asked me some basic questions like Arrays over Linked Lists and advantages of Binary trees, basic OS questions like process scheduling and priority inversion and some other non-technical stuff. A week and a half later had an onsite interview with Senior Managers and Directors. Very nice people. Pretty laid back. They just want to know you and expect honest answers. 2 rounds technical followed by lunch followed by 2 behavioural rounds with the directors and senior managers. All technical stuff was from basic OS, debugging and comp arch. The last thing was a C test. Relatively simple for anyone straight out of college. The test contained questions on ISR, storage classes, function pointers, arrays, structs and unions, preprocessor directives and basic bit manipulation.
Overall I think technical forms only about 1/4 of their selection process!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Traversing a binary tree and another unexpected technical question based on a project on my resume which I failed to answer.
I applied online. I interviewed at Seagate Technology
Interview
Went to their office, where I was asked about some projects that I did. They cared quite deeply about the process in which I arrived at my conclusion, how the data was gathered, even more so than the result of the project.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Seagate Technology (Pune) in Oct 2023
Interview
Going so deep for just simple things and behavior is not also acceptable. just stick to one topic and ask about many question on OS and C++ and also ask on bit manipulation
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
in bit manipulation they ask how to toggle given bit
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Seagate Technology (Pune) in Mar 2023
Interview
one hour offline interview. mostly they will hire as an intern and then based on performance and requirements will convert. C C++ coding skills are required. Problem solving, operating systems knowledge will be helpful.