Principal Engineer Interview Questions

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Expected questions for this position: role in current job, knowledge/expertise of electric power systems, complex embedded Linux systems, electronic devices, drivers, Python, C/C++, DSP, Web/software development process and methodology, signal processing and software architecture. Unexpected questions: how would you approach real life complex engineering problems related to real-time, multi-processing data synchronization and signal processing for transformer testing?
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Doble Engineering Company

3.3
Jul 7, 2015

Expected questions for this position: role in current job, knowledge/expertise of electric power systems, complex embedded Linux systems, electronic devices, drivers, Python, C/C++, DSP, Web/software development process and methodology, signal processing and software architecture. Unexpected questions: how would you approach real life complex engineering problems related to real-time, multi-processing data synchronization and signal processing for transformer testing?

Questions weren't limited to my area of experience and some were more of a collaborative investigation with a subject matter expert. Working through questions about allocating tight structures and then manipulating them were challenging for on-the-spot work, but were actually fun in the end.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at F5

3.8
Jul 17, 2014

Questions weren't limited to my area of experience and some were more of a collaborative investigation with a subject matter expert. Working through questions about allocating tight structures and then manipulating them were challenging for on-the-spot work, but were actually fun in the end.

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