Phoenix Technologies Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

The HR department found my resume online and reached out. They set up two phone interviews. The first one was quite general and high-level. The second phone interview was technical, focusing heavily on OS principles and kernel implementation details. Then, I had a 1:1 technical interview where we discussed VM implementation and its potential performance impacts. We went over: 1. Physical memory management 2. Page table / TLB management 3. Memory allocation and process address space. There was also a C programming interview where I had to implement link list routines for both singly and doubly linked lists, plus heap and binary tree implementations.

I interviewed for a role on a new product team that was still being formed. Up to that point, they had only hired a non-technical project manager. They had set really aggressive deadlines for the product, which were also tied to bonuses. Since I knew what they wanted was impossible, I turned down their offer. I wasn't surprised to see the job relisted multiple times over the next year, long after the initial deadlines they told me about.

the hiring manager was away for a business trip, so they have arranged another person to interview me. the interviewer ask questions about previous projects, why i want to leave, etc, nothing too exciting.