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Western Digital Senior Firmware Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 13 Oct 2023

Western Digital Senior Firmware Engineer Interview Experiences

2 interviews found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
Selected Selected
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Questions on aptitude, embedded concepts, c programming

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Resume based questions

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Aug 2021. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - online C assessment 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. I got an link to mail which contain 25 C language MCQ's . Most of the questions are medium level and some are hard level.
Round 2 - C language 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. They asked all the concepts of C and given some small programming tasks too
Round 3 - Data structures 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Asked about some C questions & linked list concepts and some programs too.(Delete a node without head pointer)
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Here some extent concentrated on C & remaining 70% is purely on previous projects and on micro controllers and on some on RTOS multi-threading and communication protocols
Round 5 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 60% is purely on technical skills and 40% is on manager questions like related to some general questions which will test logical skills and remaining are 1. why should I hire you 2. How you wanna see your...

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Western Digital Senior Firmware Engineer interview:
  • C
  • Data Structures
  • Microcontroller
  • RTOS
  • Communication Protocols
  • Project Handling
  • logical skills
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be very strong on C language, Data Structures and other technical skills that you worked previously and RTOS concepts

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Nailed the interview, still rejected
Just had the BEST interview ever – super positive and encouraging! But got rejected. Interviewer said I was the most prepared, knew it was a full-time role (unlike others), and loved my answers. One of my questions was even called "the best ever asked!" He showed me around, said I was exactly what they wanted, and would get back by Friday. I was so hyped! Then today, I got the rejection email. No reason given, just "went with someone else." Feels bad when your best isn't enough. Anyone else been there? How'd you cope?
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posted on 5 Feb 2015

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Coding questions on data structures and oops
  • Q2. Various questions on cv, projects, por's, etc

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Questions were normal like any other aptitude or coding tests.
Tips: Time given was enough for other sections but you need to hurry a little in aptitude part.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The questions were basic, some where well known like reversing a link list using recursion, designing of car parking lot using concept of oops, find tree height/diameter, etc.
Tips: 1. They ask you to write complete code on paper. This sometimes turn out to be a challenging task when you don't have compiler to correct you on basic things. Practice writing codes on paper.
2. They surely ask questions on oops, like polymorphism, inheritance, etc. besides their definition, also practice writing sudo codes to explain them

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Mainly i was asked questions on my internship experience and POR's.
Tips: They will try to grill you on some questions like 'Why we should hire you?', have a clear reason in your mind. Your other answers should not contradict with your reasons

General Tips: I don't know about other colleges but HP recruits small number of students from my university. Coding questions were average level and can easily be tackled. Many students were rejected after HR interview so don't take it lightly. They do grill you in a very good style if they are in doubt about your selection
Skills: willingness, Enthusiasm, Coding skills, Aptitude skills
College Name: IIT Guwahati

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed before Dec 2019. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Only experience .

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Nothing

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. All technical questions raised

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed before Aug 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. About my last job description

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Says limited and point to point thing, and be clear....

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Oct 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Core Java and Spring boot questions
  • Q2. Hibernate, Spring, Junit, Mockito and Micro service questions
  • Q3. Difference between String and StringBuffer
  • Ans. 

    String is immutable while StringBuffer is mutable.

    • StringBuffer is faster for concatenation operations.

    • StringBuffer has methods to modify the string.

    • StringBuffer is thread-safe while String is not.

    • StringBuffer has a larger memory footprint than String.

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Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Internal Structure of hashmap and hashing algorithm
  • Q2. Difference between predicate and supplier
  • Ans. 

    Predicate is a functional interface that takes an argument and returns a boolean value. Supplier is a functional interface that takes no argument and returns a value.

    • Predicate is used for filtering or testing a condition on an object.

    • Supplier is used for providing a value or generating a value.

    • Predicate takes an argument and returns a boolean value based on the condition.

    • Supplier takes no argument and returns a value.

    • E...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Pease focus on core java basics, oracle basics, spring data jpa basics, spring boot and micro services

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Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Stge concepts, vSAN, RAID, basic testing, OS concepts, NVMe, SATA, SAS

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Jun 2020. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

  • Q1. Basic networking theory like arp, ping, vlans, subnetting
  • Q2. Switching scenarios mostly related to STP
  • Q3. OSI layer based questions. For example, which layer deals with congestion control.
  • Q4. Basics of routing. Ospf n bgp scenarios
  • Q5. One of the challenging cases worked on
  • Ans. 

    Developed a solution for optimizing a complex algorithm for a client in the finance industry

    • Client had a large dataset that needed to be processed quickly

    • Implemented parallel processing to speed up the algorithm

    • Optimized the code to reduce memory usage

    • Collaborated with the client to fine-tune the algorithm for their specific needs

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  • Q6. Scenarios questions to check how you would approach a problem and work towards resolution. Like what all information would you ask from the customer to understand the issue and how you would make use of it...

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Having a concrete networking experience and understanding would help you to crack the interview easily.
The scenarios are not tough and are basically put to check if you know the basics.
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed in Oct 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

1 hour - Trees, Array, Hashmap, DP, CP etc

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Project discussion

Western Digital Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Western Digital Senior Firmware Engineer interview?
Western Digital interview process usually has 4 rounds. The most common rounds in the Western Digital interview process are Technical, Behavioral and Resume Shortlist.

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