Thales Full Stack Engineer interview experience

The questions touched on C++ and Linux, command-line style thinking, and build mechanics like CMake and how you’d structure building a project. They also probed memory safety and optimization, and the conversation expanded toward embedded systems.

There was also a practical, applied technical angle around image processing with OpenCV—things like filters and Gaussian operations—so it wasn’t only abstract language. The interview was still “reasonable” rather than brutal, but it demanded that I connect low-level concepts to real tasks.

I didn’t receive an offer, and what left me uneasy was not