Software Design Engineer Interview (with Evertz)
03-22-2011 at 04:00 PM
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Software Design Engineer Interview (with Evertz)
I have a software design engineering interview with Evertz, and was wondering if anyone had any tips for a software engineering position interview in general or with Evertz.
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03-22-2011 at 04:27 PM
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I'm not software but some advice that was given to me was or what I can surmize is: make sure you have a basic grasp of the syntax, stacks, pointers, and have some experience going through some piece of code explaining how and why it works... its important to be able to communicate why something is working the way it is for the bigger firms (anywhere, really) because your code has to be modular and depreciable enough to be read by anyone on the team (something I'm sure you've heard in your courses). Take what languages the job description specified and review a little of each.. C++, etc will give you the best way to review principles. Bascially if you said you're proficient in suchandsuch language, make sure you can back it up..
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03-22-2011 at 04:44 PM
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I'm not software but some advice that was given to me was or what I can surmize is: make sure you have a basic grasp of the syntax, stacks, pointers, and have some experience going through some piece of code explaining how and why it works... its important to be able to communicate why something is working the way it is for the bigger firms (anywhere, really) because your code has to be modular and depreciable enough to be read by anyone on the team (something I'm sure you've heard in your courses). Take what languages the job description specified and review a little of each.. C++, etc will give you the best way to review principles. Bascially if you said you're proficient in suchandsuch language, make sure you can back it up..
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That is the kind of questions that would be asked if you applied to a Software Developer position. For a Software Design position, it is slightly different. I was going to write out a list of things but I found that Wikipedia covers pretty much everything I was going to say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design
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03-22-2011 at 05:22 PM
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That is the kind of questions that would be asked if you applied to a Software Developer position. For a Software Design position, it is slightly different. I was going to write out a list of things but I found that Wikipedia covers pretty much everything I was going to say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design
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yea that's a pretty nice list, although it's huge and i would rather study specific things - like data structures beforehand.
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03-22-2011 at 05:28 PM
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yea that's a pretty nice list, although it's huge and i would rather study specific things - like data structures beforehand.
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Haha, yes! that is why it is a four year program.
Try to look into Object Oriented Programming, UML diagrams (especially class diagrams), team organization, project deadline estimation etc...
I see you are in second year so you must have covered some things already. Is this a COOP job?
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03-22-2011 at 05:43 PM
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Haha, yes! that is why it is a four year program.
Try to look into Object Oriented Programming, UML diagrams (especially class diagrams), team organization, project deadline estimation etc...
I see you are in second year so you must have covered some things already. Is this a COOP job?
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Sounds to me like you may have experience from Software dev at Mohawk? Yes I am in second year and we have done a lot of algorithm design and proving, but not too much actual practical stuff.
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03-22-2011 at 06:27 PM
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I would know basic things as well, what is an object? What is an interface? etc.
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03-22-2011 at 08:01 PM
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Sounds to me like you may have experience from Software dev at Mohawk? Yes I am in second year and we have done a lot of algorithm design and proving, but not too much actual practical stuff.
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I am graduating this year from Software Eng & Embedded Systems from Mac.
It is all theory in school. :) You will learn all the practical stuff from the job itself.
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03-23-2011 at 12:22 AM
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I am graduating this year from Software Eng & Embedded Systems from Mac.
It is all theory in school. You will learn all the practical stuff from the job itself.
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You're gonna be among the first few to graduate from the Software and Embedded program?
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