I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Advantest (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2019
Interview
HR interviewed on phone, then the hiring manager give one interview on phone. After that, there are 2 rounds of interviews in-person each time with 4-5 engineers from different groups.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Past experiences, asking for details about what I have done in the past. Make sure you review your resume carefully and answer all the related questions. If you do not do the work then they will know.
2) Volatile, auto, register variables. Semaphore and mutex, Linux device driver questions about bottom half, find errors in the current code.
3) Link list coding, binary coding in C/C++