Microchip Technology Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted May 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My phone interview was 45 minutes and honestly felt long and tedious, even though the time window was fixed.

It was very difficult, and the topics were heavily weighted toward telecommunications and networking, which didn’t match my background as an electrical engineering student. I tried to anchor my answers wherever I could—especially by relating back to DSP and the telecommunication side—but when the more in-depth questions started, I ran out of ways to recover.

The experience was essentially a deep technical probe in a narrow domain, and I could tell quickly that they were expecting familiarity at a level I didn’t have. I left feeling helpless during the hardest parts rather than merely

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