Phone Interview Posted January 8, 2005 at 11:42 am

I had my first phone interview yesterday. My corporate contact at Micron contacted me at about noon to set up the phone interview for about 4 PM that afternoon. It was a strictly technical interview and it lasted about 40 minutes. My interviewer asked me some pretty simple questions about programming and semiconductors (samples follow). At the end of the interview, my interviewer expressed in interest in seeing my academic transcript and told me to stay in touch with the recruiter. All told, I think it went pretty well, plus I have a better idea of what to expect in the future.

Here are some samples of the types of questions I was asked.

• Tell me about pointers.
• Tell me about data structures.
• Tell me about object-oriented programming.
• What is the difference between C and Java?
• What is the effect of doubling the area of a capicator’s plates?
• What is the effect of halving the distance between the plates?
• What is does an accumulator do?