My CV was shortlisted and I had to travel to Bangalore for the interview. The HR had sent calendar invites to all interviewers on the said date, The process consisted of 3 rounds. I have worked mostly at the application layer.. Round 1 had interviewers asking me about L2 switching, on which I had little knowledge. There was an interesting question though.. How to copy specific bits from a byte stream being received via packet buffer... Round 2 a guy walked in and asked me about Kadane's algorithm for making maximum profit in shares. At that point of time, I hadn't heard about the algorithm... so I gave him a logic to arrive at the profit... At that point he felt very hungry, so we moved for lunch... had an informal chat over lunch... and then he dropped me back to my room...and he got back to work... Round 3 a guy came and asked me about Makefiles, bootloaders... I have not worked on these full time, but had used these at work... He then asked me about my projects and then asked me to write code to insert node into a Binary Search Tree... he said he was done by then.. At this point I knew that this wasn't going anywhere so I started back to the airport. Apart from round 1, the process seemed like a farce... and I had no clue why they shortlisted me despite not having experience at the kernel level. They said they would reimburse the flight tickets to and fro and had asked me to book. But it has been a month already and the HR folks are yet to reimburse me for the trip..

Interview Experience – Marvell Technologies (DSP Role) Recently interviewed with Marvell Technologies for a DSP-focused role. The process spanned 3–4 weeks and included: 📞 Initial HR screening – brief phone call to understand background and role fit. 🧠 Technical round – 1-hour deep dive with a Senior Architect covering: Background and experiences of previous work. 🏢 Onsite interview – 1.5 hours at their Viman Nagar office. Embedded C Bitwise operations RTOS concepts C memory layout Whiteboarding session and discussion on design problem. While the role required DSP expertise, it was for a new division, and the interviewers themselves had limited DSP exposure. Unfortunately, the experience was marred by delayed feedback. Despite multiple follow-ups, HR took 2+ weeks to respond, only to cite negative feedback from the second round — which felt inconsistent given the delay. 🔍 Takeaway: Technical team: Knowledgeable and engaging. HR process: Disappointing — lacked transparency and respect for candidate time. ✅ Would recommend the company for its tech work. ❌ Would caution candidates about the HR experience.