ARM

Role: Software PTUG (Part-Time Undergraduate)

College: Top 10 EEE UK uni

Interview Date: January 12, 2021

Interview Type: Online Interview

Result: Rejected

Difficulty: Not Specified

Rounds: 1 online interview

Topics Asked: Data Structures (Linked List), Assembly Language, Bit Manipulation.

Experience:

The candidate, a 1st-year BSc EEE student from a top UK university, had one online interview for a Software PTUG position at ARM in Cambridge, UK.

Online Interview: The interviewer did not turn on their camera. Questions included:

• Reverse a linked list.
• Explain some assembly language code (keywords were explained by the interviewer).
• Given a decimal number like 5, return the number of '1' bits there are in its binary form. (Hint not given during the interview: consider using '&', '%', '>>', and '<<').

The candidate was told they would hear back in 1 week but received a rejection after 3 weeks.