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IBM Embedded Engineer Interview Questions

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Hash TablesStart here. 4 questions · ~49 min
Virtual Memory TranslationMedium
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Translate a virtual address through a page table into a physical address, handling unmapped pages and invalid addresses.

Hash TablesCodingArraysIBM
Parse Logs for AnomaliesHard
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Parse structured logs, normalize error messages, aggregate recurring patterns, and flag rare errors using hashing and regular expressions.

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Stack16 questions · ~195 min
Context Switching BasicsHard
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Count process-to-process context switches during round-robin CPU scheduling with a queue.

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Bit Manipulation3 questions · ~37 min
Count Set BitsEasy
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Count the `1` bits in a non-negative integer using Brian Kernighan's bit manipulation technique.

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Searching3 questions · ~37 min
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More topics7 questions · ~85 min
Pointers, Allocation, LeaksMedium
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Track allocation and release events to identify memory blocks that remain allocated.

c/c++CodingArraysIBM
NUMA ArchitectureHard
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Assign memory pages to NUMA nodes with capacity limits while minimizing weighted remote-memory access cost.

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Page Replacement AlgorithmsHard
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Simulate FIFO, LRU, and optimal page replacement policies and count page faults for a reference string.

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Optimize Linux Application PerformanceMedium
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Aggregate Linux profiling samples and return the most expensive functions using hash-based aggregation and deterministic ranking.

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