Software Engineer II
Posted Sep 17, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Walk me through a project where you worked on embedded software close to the hardware. What was the platform and what problems did you run into?
What they are checking: whether the candidate actually has hands-on embedded experience beyond coursework
Tell me about a time you had to write or read a Bash or Python script to automate part of a build or test process.
What they are checking: comfort with scripting tools listed in the posting, not just theoretical knowledge
Describe a situation where you had to work across hardware and software teams to get a feature working end to end.
What they are checking: ability to collaborate across integration boundaries, which the role explicitly requires
Tell me about a time a code review caught something important in your work. What was it and how did you respond?
What they are checking: openness to feedback and quality mindset in a team-based agile environment
Tell me about a time you had to explain a technical problem to someone who wasn't an engineer.
What they are checking: communication skill, since the posting stresses this explicitly
What would you do
Say you're debugging a memory leak in a C++ application that only shows up after the device has been running for days. How would you track it down?
What they are checking: practical debugging methodology and patience with hard-to-reproduce issues
If a driver you wrote was causing intermittent crashes on some but not all devices in the field, what's your first move?
What they are checking: structured troubleshooting approach and understanding of hardware variability
If you inherited a large legacy C codebase with almost no documentation, how would you approach getting familiar with it before making changes?
What they are checking: pragmatic strategy for onboarding into unfamiliar, mission-critical code safely
About the work
Tell me about the difference between TCP and UDP, and give me an example of when you'd pick one over the other in a networked application.
What they are checking: basic networking fundamentals needed for products that rely on TCP/IP, TLS, UDP
What's the difference between a mutex and a semaphore, and when have you had to use one in real code?
What they are checking: depth of understanding of concurrency, common in embedded/Linux systems work
How would you explain TLS handshake at a high level to someone who's never seen it?
What they are checking: grasp of security fundamentals relevant to authentication and cryptography concepts mentioned
Have you worked with Git and JIRA in a team setting? Walk me through how your team used branching and ticket tracking.
What they are checking: real familiarity with agile tooling versus just having heard of it
What do SIP and RTP actually do in a voice or video call, and where does RTCP fit in?
What they are checking: whether the candidate has genuine exposure to real-time communication protocols beyond a resume keyword
Have you used or experimented with any generative AI or LLM tools in your development work? What did you use them for and what were the limits you ran into?
What they are checking: exposure to the 'Gen AI and LLM is a plus' desired skill and honest self-assessment of its limits
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