Valeo Software Engineer interview experience

After that, there was a discussion centered on projects I had done during my academics, with a big emphasis on the basics of C. The way the questions flowed made it clear the interviewers cared most about my project: I needed to be able to explain every block and the reasoning behind why I chose each component.

They followed up with questions that pushed me toward the “why” and “what if” side of things, and they also probed C fundamentals directly—pointers, arrays, strings, functions, structures, and memory allocation—plus some simple coding questions. The conversation also pulled in core