The hiring process at GSI Technology takes an average of 3 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Embedded Software Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 3 days), whereas Embedded Software Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 3 days).
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GSI Technology (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Dec 2025
Interview
2 days after applying, I got a phone call from the recruiter and we talked for about 10-15 minutes. A few days after that call I had a 30 minutes video call with the hiring manager. He didn't ask any technical questions, only gave an overview of the company, some details of what the department he's a part of does, and what the roll of his team in that department is. 2 days after that video call I got another phone call from the recruiter who told me they wanted to proceed and invited me for a face-to-face interview at the office. That interview took place 1 week after the video-call.
The interview started with the hiring manager presenting the board that contains their SoC and engineers use for testing in their work. Then he asked me to describe the system I was working on, give an example of an assignment I had which I really enjoyed doing and describe an interesting bug I dealt with.
Then he asked 2 technical questions, each with 2 parts (see questions below). At this point the interview took a weird turn. During the 2nd part of the 2nd question, while I was working on a solution, the interviewer said he needed to step outside for a few minutes, and disappeared for about 30 minutes. All that time I was waiting for him in the conference room. At a certain point I decided to go look for him around the office, but couldn't find him anywhere, so I returned to the conference room, took a look at the clock on my phone (which until that point was tucked in my bag) and saw that we're already half an hour past the time the interview should have ended by. The interviewer came back a few minutes after that and continued the interview as normal, returning to that last technical question, then continuing with some more questions about me.
At the end, an interview that was scheduled for 1.5 hours, took 2 hours and 50 minutes.
The response with their decision after this interview came 2.5 weeks after the interview (not that I any intensions of proceeding after that facade).
There's a proper, respectful way to treat candidates, and this, was not it.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write a function that gets a 4-byte integer, which is in little-endian, and returns it in big-endian.
Part 1: Implement a function that copies data from a source address to a destination address (just a one liner wrapper which uses memcpy).
Part 2 : You now also have an API that triggers a DMA that can copy data efficiently, but it has a limitation that both the source address and the transfer length must be 8-byte aligned. Use this DMA API, and the API you wrote in part 1, to write an API that can copy any size of data from any source address to any destination.
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at GSI Technology (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Jan 2020
Interview
phone interview with team leader for my back ground knowledge and explanation on the company and their products.
face to face interview with Team leader
face to face interview with vp r&d
last interview with HR
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
are you familiar with yocto ?
what is socket?
what is mutex?
I was interviewed by 5 people (including HR ), had multiple tests which I passed all. One of the interviewers was a hardware person and I had a very upleasant expreience with him. he didn't let me speak, he was extremely cynical and arrogant and tried to turn each word I said against me. He asked me many hardware questions and was surprised that I don't understand hardware even though I never said I understood hardware and that wasn't any of the job's qualifications), they also spoke with my recommenders. They told me that the current software architect was leaving and that it was his last week and they needed someone immediately to take over and start working so the knowledge of the leaving architect wouldn't be lost. After all those tests and meetings, they called me and said I was about to have a meeting regarding the contract. An hour later, the they called again and said the the interviewer (who had nothing to do with the proposed role) wanted me to come and do tests (again). When I told the HR that I didn't agree to those terms and wanted to talk to the CEO, she told me that it was not acceptable at all and the meeting with the CEO was only out of "respect" to me and nothing else . She told me that I should be happy that they'd decided to test me again. When I continued insisting talking to the CEO she told me that we should part our ways. The process was extremely hurtful, humiliating and degrading to say the least. I got the impression that this company cares less about its candidates, and I hope that one day they will give more respect to their candidates
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Are you familiar with ES?
What is the difference between relational and non relational DB?
What is an inverted index (in ES)?
How to design Resource Manager that checks KA and other metrics on 6 hardware cards?
What is a microservice?
What are the advantages of a microservices?