Wolfspeed·Software Engineer

Wolfspeed Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Jul 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was asked to work through a set of technical questions that were the kind of thing where you really needed to know the subject and think clearly under pressure.

The questions included a basic optics/electronics framing—like what LEDs are—and also a more structured “critical thinking” style problem.

One of the brain-teasers gave me nine billiard balls where one had a noticeably different weight. I had to reason out the minimum number of balance measurements needed to be certain which ball was heavier. I worked it through by splitting them into groups, using the balance to eliminate possibilities, and then doing a final measurement to pinpoint the heavy one.

Even though I felt prepared for technical depth, the process didn’t end with an offer. It

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