I applied through university. I interviewed at Espressif
No offer
Negative experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Espressif (Pune) in Sept 2018
Interview
I applied through a referral in Pune.
First interview was telephonic.
They asked about my resume and projects that I've done. There were some basic concepts about pointers and c programming.
What I liked about the interview is, the interviewer was more interested in what I want in that position, what type of work I like and tried to see if I fit in.
Second round was on site round. They asked few data structure questions. Like LCA, tree based algos. Operating system and networking concepts.
Third round was only focused on the work I did and design, architecture related.
Interviewers were really friendly and professional.
After the interviews i did not receive any result from them. Contacted them and they said applications is on hold. Fair enough.
Few days later, it was still on hold.
I interviewed in October and till February it was on hold. They did not inform me until when the application is on hold. Which seems unprofessional to me. Should I wait for a month / year / decade?
I finally gave up.
They have a very nice team and product to work on and I was really interested in working there. Sadly because of poor management, operations and bad communication, i could not join.
First round was Hackerearth MCQ and Coding test, with questions on OS, RTOS, CN. No aptitude questions.
Followed by the qualification test there were 3 rounds of technical interviews and a HR round.
I did not get shortlisted after the first interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First interview:
1) First repeating character in a string with O(N)
2) Check whether the given number is even with O(1) & without the modulo operator
3) Check whether the given number is power of 2 with O(1),
4) The 2 eggs and 10 floors problem.
5) Questions about I2S protocol, I2C vs SPI, design considerations for a PCB layout.
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Espressif (Pune) in Nov 2020
Interview
Espressif came to my college for campus hiring. Was a mixed experience. 2 technical rounds of interview post an aptitude and then final HR round. You need to have a clear understanding of the basics of DSA, operation systems and microcontrollers
I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Espressif (Pune) in Aug 2020
Interview
Three techinal rounds and one HR round was conducted. Technical rounds were highly focused on Operating Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, C language and microprocessor. Almost all questions were in depth and required the interviewee dive deep in the concepts of the respective topic.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Given a target sum and an array, find two integers in array which add up to given target.