Western Digital Software Engineer interview experience

In the early technical portion, I was asked basic digital logic questions—things like mealy versus moore—and they also probed my understanding at a circuit/timing level, including VTC graph of CMOS and how setup and hold times behave.

The interview also pulled from my resume and projects, but it stayed anchored in those hardware topics. They weren’t trying to catch me on random trivia; the questions were aimed at whether I understood what causes violations and how to explain the behavior clearly.

Even though the questions were described as fairly basic, the details still required precision,