Wind River Interview Questions
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Quality Engineer
Mid Average Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
The interview was conducted with cameras off for the interviewers, but I was asked to turn mine on. Communication was tough because both interviewers struggled with English. At the beginning, they mentioned that the work I did wasn't as complex as theirs, which was a really strange part of the experience.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you share an instance where you encountered a technical challenge?
Wind River
Intern
Intern Average Positive experience Accept offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Phone screen Background check Offer
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral Coding
The whole process was online and pretty smooth, felt well-organized and manageable. I got this opportunity through a campus drive. The interviewers had reasonable expectations, focusing on the core CS knowledge you'd expect from an undergrad, not too tough. The selection had three rounds: Technical, Behavioral, and HR. The Technical round was all about logic and problem-solving, using typical programming problems. For a CS student, the main thing was explaining your thinking clearly, not super advanced stuff. The Behavioral round mixed programming questions with scenarios to check how you make decisions and communicate. The HR round was mostly situational and response-based questions, looking at your attitude and if you fit the company.
Confirmed questions1 question
- If you were on a team and noticed a member wasn't pulling their weight or doing their tasks, what would you do about it?
Wind River
Embedded Software Engineer
Mid Easy Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
The HR round was okay, but overall a poor experience. The first tech interview was supposed to have 3 interviewers, but only one showed up and asked very simple questions. The second round, with the team manager, unexpectedly included two other interviewers who weren't in the first round and asked a bunch of weird tech questions. No coding questions were asked, surprisingly. I waited about 2 weeks for a decision, constantly being told they were interviewing others. Eventually, I was informed they chose someone else. I'm not upset about not getting the offer, but they shouldn't waste candidates' time and should make decisions faster, regardless of qualification.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- What are the basic concepts of Operating Systems?
- Can you explain CPU architecture?
Wind River
Test Engineer
Senior Difficult Negative experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
I went through a single interview round with the hiring manager and one of the team members. The manager seemed quite arrogant and had a sarcastic tone throughout our conversation. She even had the audacity to ask about my current salary, which I found inappropriate as it's typically an HR matter. Despite her leading the team for a year, she acted like she had been in a position of authority forever. I'm actually glad I didn't get the offer, as I would have declined it anyway.
Confirmed questions5 questions
- Can you discuss your experience with networking?
- Tell me about your approach to testing.
- What is your leadership style?
Wind River Interview Questions
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“Given two binary trees, write a function to simultaneously parse them and print the numbers from both trees in ascending order, without using any additional data structures besides the two provided binary trees.”
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