Interview with an Embedded Engineer?

1) What is the question that confused you the most?

When I was asked what is "Endian"? I was confused the most. I know Indian, but what is endian? Does it have printed with misspelled?

2) What do you think your great achievment with your more than 8 years experience in the embedded field?

Often, I used to be proud of myself that I have not burnt even one board withgiving wrong power supply connection, though I have handled many boards and different power adapters at the same time.

3) What was the happiest moment in your embedded carrier?

Yeah. For the first time, I went abroad for a 1 and half month on-site assignment. Finishing the project and finally escaping to the airport from the customer was the most happiest moment in my life.

4) What was the most depressing moment in your embedded carrier?

When the above said abroad customer called me back to on-site, when they found that I had returned back to my home country without implementing a functionality in that project.

5) Which one you most like in embedded development?

When I find a controller is exctly same with another one which had driver already developed. Really I like and enjoy that moment.

6) Which one you most hate?

When I heard that your code works fine. But, it throws exception when operating at very high speed.

7) Most dislike words in embedded?

PLL setting, SDRAM clock configuration, Exception

8) Forgotten keywords after getting into embedded?

scanf()

9) The word you like the most?

porting

10) What is your future goal?

I used to think why so many different platforms like ARM, PowerPC, SuperH? Let them merge all and make a single platform with single program for everything. Let the embedded engineers enjoy their life by doing simple porting. And, very intelligent run-time Exception Handling CPU and OS platforms. They should clearly say what was the problem.