Western Digital Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My technical interviews leaned very specific, and they felt tailored to hardware and verification topics more than generic software.

I got questions around SV/UVM concepts like what to prepare for in a testbench environment—things such as TLM ports, events, semaphores, and clock synchronization. Even within that, the questions connected to practical ideas like how NVMe flow and why PCIe comes up.

In another round, the scope broadened across technical areas like DSA, CS fundamentals, and DBMS, alongside system-design style discussion, but SQL stood out as a repeated focus. They also asked about the projects I’d worked on, so I had to tie the hardware-style knowledge to my actual experience.

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