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by pkaye 3656 days ago
After interviewing thousands of candidates over the years, I say anything is possible. One candidate I recall was 24+ years of development experience mostly consulting in firmware. He graduated from a top school and was referred by our VP of ASIC engineering. Yet he struggled at the most basic C pointer question. He tried everything in the interview to prevent us from asking any coding questions.
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Oh my! How can you work in firmware and not know the basics of C pointers? Firmware is mostly C!