I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at WD (Bengaluru) in Oct 2024
Interview
It’s really good, they did took 5 rounds. Those interviews were in spam of 3 days and took by managers and technologist. Interview process is simple, easy questions and overall good experience
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at WD (Bengaluru) in Apr 2021
Interview
I applied by sending a mail to the HR my resume. He called me and scheduled the interview. I had 2 rounds of interviews.
First round was detailed for 1 hour. Most of the questions were from my resume. Other questions were basic c.
Secound round:
1. 3 programming questions for 1 hour. All 3 questions were from Geeks for geeks. I solved 2 of those. But could not solve the 3rd. The interviewer was not that clear on the question. I tried my best but could not. I thought overall I did reaonsably well. But did not get a call back
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. General C questions like pointers, size of void pointer, usage of void pointer, why cant call by reference be used always. Bitwise operations
2. Find the presence of a element in an infinite array.
3. Copy the bit value in the 5th bit to 6th bit of a variable
4. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-nth-magic-number/#:~:text=A%20magic%20number%20is%20defined,125%20%2B%205)%2C%20%E2%80%A6.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at WD in Aug 2019
Interview
Multiple rounds, 4 technical and 1 HR round and one telephonic.
Each round took around half an hour to 45 min.
Different kinds of questions covering all topics.
Last round was one code which I couldn't do completely. However question asked on my previous company project where i used major logic for that feature. When I explained, I got selected for the interview
Staff Firmware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at WD with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Staff Firmware Engineer roles take an average of 8 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at WD overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at WD as a Staff Firmware Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Presentation: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Phone interview: 17%
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