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One of the key questions they asked me during the technical round was to explain the difference between `malloc()` and `calloc()`, along with how memory is allocated and initialized in each case. They also asked me to write a small code snippet using both functions and explain how it would behave in terms of memory management and output.
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Embedded Software Engineer

Interviewed at IppoPay Technologies

4.3
Jul 29, 2025

One of the key questions they asked me during the technical round was to explain the difference between `malloc()` and `calloc()`, along with how memory is allocated and initialized in each case. They also asked me to write a small code snippet using both functions and explain how it would behave in terms of memory management and output.

They asked a lot of behavioral question in between the lines and those were fine, no funny business there and the coding questions were about: 1. string manipulation 2. bit manipulatioon 3. hash tables (or the closest you can pull on c and c++) 4. bytes manipulation and memory alignment everything was in C and nothing about dinamic programing. If you really want to get an offer from a company like this, I strongly suggest to really polish your programming style, your knowledge of the language, like really master C or C++, they don't care that you understand the problem from a high level perspective, these people are trained to select a candidate that can give the right answer to the coding challenge in the right time and discuss the answer.
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Embedded Software Engineer

Interviewed at Snap

3.3
Sep 28, 2025

They asked a lot of behavioral question in between the lines and those were fine, no funny business there and the coding questions were about: 1. string manipulation 2. bit manipulatioon 3. hash tables (or the closest you can pull on c and c++) 4. bytes manipulation and memory alignment everything was in C and nothing about dinamic programing. If you really want to get an offer from a company like this, I strongly suggest to really polish your programming style, your knowledge of the language, like really master C or C++, they don't care that you understand the problem from a high level perspective, these people are trained to select a candidate that can give the right answer to the coding challenge in the right time and discuss the answer.

In the first interview with the HR manager, there were six questions related to programming and application design patterns. In the second interview with the team lead, it focused mostly on problem-solving approaches, algorithms and live coding test (data structure).
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Embedded Software Engineer

Interviewed at EGYM

3.9
Sep 21, 2025

In the first interview with the HR manager, there were six questions related to programming and application design patterns. In the second interview with the team lead, it focused mostly on problem-solving approaches, algorithms and live coding test (data structure).

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