Preguntas de entrevista para Senior Hardware Engineer
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If you have a 10W light bulb and a 100W light bulb, and you connect them together, which one will be brighter?
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@Don you are correct up until your conclusion that "Each bulb will be a little dimmer than in parallel, but 100W still brighter." The 100W bulb is 10x dimmer if you assume resistance does not depend on current. Reality is even worse since R increases with current. Since the 10W bulb has 10x higher resistance than 100W bulb, it will absorb 10x as much power in the voltage divider: 100W bulb = 1A at 100V, or 100 ohms 10W bulb = 0.1A at 100V, or 1000 ohms 100W bulb + 10W bulb in series driven off 110V line is 1100 ohms carrying 0.1A of current. Power delivered to 10W bulb is P = I^2 x R = (0.1A)^2 x (1000 ohm) = 10W. Power delivered to 100W bulb is P = (0.1A)^2 x (100 ohm) = 1W. So the 100W bulb only receives 1W delivered power because the 10W bulb absorbs all the power in the divider. The 10W bulb will be brighter. Menos
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1. When connected in series: In a series connection, current flowing across each element is same. So when 40W bulb and 60W bulb are connected in series, same current will flow through them. To find which bulb will glow brighter we need to find the power dissipation across each of them. From the relation P=(I*I) R since current is same we can say that power dissipation will be higher for the bulb with higher resistance i.e. 40W bulb. Hence 40W bulb will glow brighter in series connection. 2. When connected in parallel: In a parallel connection, voltage across each element is same. So when 40W bulb and 60W bulb are connected in parallel, voltage across them will be same (100 V in the given case). To find which bulb will glow brighter we need to find the power dissipation across each of them. From the relation P=(V*V)/R since voltage is same we can say that power dissipation will be higher for the bulb with lower resistance i.e. 60W bulb. Hence 60W bulb will glow brighter in parallel connection. Menos
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I have attended the same question, 40W & 100W bulb with 110V supply , all are them connected in serial Answer : Who is having more resistance, he will have more power drop also he is the brighter one. Here 100W will have less resistance and 40W bulb has more resistance, So 40W will be glow brighter than 100W bulb R1 = 110 x 110 / 100 = 2.2 ohm R2 = 110 x 110 / 40 = 302.5 ohm Answer is 40W bulb will be brighter than 100W bulb Menos
Describe a function to check if an integer is a power of 2.
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Write the number in binary and count the number of ones in that.If the number os ones is only 1 then it the number is indeed a power of 2 Menos
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For an integer n: If n is less than 1, return false. If the bitwise & of n and n-1 is 0, return true. Otherwise, return false. Menos
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I think the main idea is to use recursion function, for the integer which is larger than 0, if it is 1 return true, else return function(n-1) Menos
Describe a circuit that implements the following truth table using only NAND gates. A B OUT 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1
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out = (A NAND (B NAND B))
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OUT = (A NAND (B NAND 1)) or out = (A NAND (B NAND B)) like what anonymous said. Menos
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out = ((A NAND A) NAND (A NAND A)) NAND (B NAND B)
There are 5 bowls with 100 candies each. In 4 bowls, all of the candies are 10 grams each. In 1 bowl, all the candies are 9 grams each. Using a digital scale, how can you determine which bowl has the 9 gram candies by using only 1 weighing?
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Take 1 candy from bowl 1, 2 candies from bowl 2, 3 candies from bowl 3, and 4 candies from bowl; and weight them on the digital scale. If the total weight is 100 grams, the 9 gram candies are in bowl 5. If the total weight is 99 grams, the 9 gram candies are in bowl 1. If the total weight is 98 grams, the 9 gram candies are in bowl 2. If the total weight is 97 grams, the 9 gram candies are in bowl 3. If the total weight is 96 grams, the 9 gram candies are in bowl 4. Menos
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if weighing machine can weigh the bowls: Put 2 bowls on each side, if they weigh equal then last bowl has candies with 9 grams. If the bowl weigh different then weigh the 2 bowls with lower weight and find the lowest weight bowl. Menos
What is a time domain test instrument and what is a frequency domain instrument? I've never heard of these terma before.
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Oscilloscope. (Maybe I should be interviewing you?)
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Oscope and Spectrum Analyzer :)
Not the most difficult question but I found this question interesting. Write a piece of code that allows you to detect if the machine you are running the program is little Endian or big Endian memory structure.
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Much easier than that: inline int isLE() { int v = 1; //stored in host order char *p = (char *)&v; //can access addresses &p[0], ..., &p[3] //LS byte stored at lower address in memory => LE return p[0]; } I'm sure there's a more efficient way, but that's the best I know. Menos
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To answer this question, you need to know about the union in C. 1) declare union { unsigned long ul; unsigned char tab[4] } un; 2) then: un.ul=0x12345678; for(i=0; i<4; i++) printf("%x ",un.tab[i]); Menos
Non-trivial sender-receiver type of coding problem.
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Can you tell more about hour long coding interview? More detail on coding problem would help. Thank you! Menos
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You need to write an FSM. For whatever they ask!
How many ping pong balls fit in a 747
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about 22 million in the main cabin depending on the installed options.
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The exact same number as the number of angels on the head of a pin. Go figure.
Of course relevant experience. One more interesting question was to how would I organize the team to function efficiently.
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Functionally split the team members based on their background and strengths.
