Firmware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Western Digital with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 58% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Firmware Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 26 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Western Digital overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Western Digital as a Firmware Engineer according to 26 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 19%
Presentation: 19%
Group panel interview: 17%
Phone interview: 16%
Skills test: 10%
Drug test: 7%
Other: 5%
Background check: 3%
Personality test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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In the online test Round 1
They asked MCQ which was purely based on core subjects like OS, DBMS also COA and CN.
Second section was of Aptitude they asked 30 quantitative aptitude questions.
Third was DSA three problem was there
1. LCA in Binary Tree
2. Partitioning DP
3. String Matching (Rabin Karp or LPS)
Round 2
Again coding round but this time it was on blank paper, 2 questions were asked
1. Merge Sort
2. Swapping of first and last bit of 32 bit integer keeping rest of the bits exactly same.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Code of Merge Sort and swapping of first and last bits of 32 bit integer.
It consisted of 3 rounds .In my first round they asked lot of puzzles and c based questions and little bit of dsa as i am from IT branch
In second round he focused on cs fundamentals puzzles project
Verdict : NOT SELECTED
Reason: ONLY 2 Vacancies(given for 1 ece ,1 ee branch)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If there is no such thing like malloc how would you allocate memory
Smooth, more focus on c basic programming. 2 hours long of online interview. They divide into 2 sections technical and personalities. Several people from the department tagged along to ask different questions from each person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Soft skills and programming questions to be answered on the spot with justifications