came in. greeting. sit down. talking. answered some questions. asked some questions. had a lunch. continued talking, talking, and talking. some questions are hard. don't know how to answer. just be honest. no guess.

One of their recruiters got in touch with me on linkedin. They were looking for someone with device driver background. After a few emails back and forth, they decided to bring me in their office instead of the regular phone screening. Initially I was told that this was still a screening process before the actual interview. I thought it was strange to have a screening process that lasted 5 hours. The questions were fairly generic like how do you reverse a linked list, dma vs io etc. There weren't any trick questions. They were all nice people but I felt there was a disconnect between them and the recruiter that was arranging the interview. Some of them didn't know what position I was interviewing for. I was under the assumption that I will be called for the next round of interview and then the recruiter called me and said that they are extending an offer to me. I was surprised at the turn of events but relieved that I didn't have to repeat the same things again for another few hours. The offer they extended me was probably good in market value, but they were barely able to match what I was making in terms of base salary. Their USP seems to be the restricted stock that they offer people. It would have been a nice match for me except that I got an offer in an early stage startup which promised me much better equity(Apples and oranges again). Overall, the experience was highly positive.