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      Staff Firmware Engineer Interview

      Jul 1, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru

      Other Staff Firmware Engineer Interview Reviews for WD

      Staff Firmware Engineer Interview

      May 13, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      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

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      2D array & Bit manipulation
      Answer question
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      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.
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      2

      Staff Firmware Engineer Interview

      Feb 4, 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      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

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      puzzles and coding, scenario based
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      Jobs at WD

      31 jobs in United States
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      Irvine, CA
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      $35 - $46 /hr
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      Senior Technologist - Firmware Development
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      $151K - $201K /yr
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      WD interviews FAQs

      • 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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