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      Technical Lead Interview

      3 Sept 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at ALSTOM (Bengaluru) in May 2016

      Interview

      The interview was a telephonic round which i was unable to clear it even though questions were pretty straight forward. They just jumped to Linux and C and i guess that they are really expecting guys who had worked in linux drivers and stuffs. The telephonic interview lasted for 20 to 25 minutes

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1)At first they initially asked me to give a brief introduction which i did give .Once introduction was done ,they just jumped to Linux questions some of which i remember are as mentioned below: 2)What is difference between message passing and message queing. 3) what is the difference between Linux and QNX? 4)What is the size of an integer and who determines the size of an integer. 5)Another tricky question asked was that why is shared memory IPC slowest among the three IPC's. 6)Which would you think would be able to access faster a)Global variable or a shared memory variable b)Local variable or a shared memory variable and why? 6)What is structure padding and why padding is used and how can we disable structure padding? 7)Have you used Mutex and where and why cant we use binary semaphore instead of mutex?
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