"You begin to suspect that a problem you are having is due to a hardware problem, where the processor is not conforming to its specification. How would you track this down? How would you prepare a bug report for the chip manufacturer, and how would you work around the problem?"
Actually he's looking for people who know how to track down a processor bug, report it appropriately to a manufacturer, and work around it. Would it demonstrate complete incompetence and a failure of my CS education to answer: "I would learn how to track it down, learn how to submit a report, and then figure out how to work around it."?
It's one thing to expect job candidates for AdaCore to be experienced embedded-system developers, but it's another thing to expect university CS departments to throw their resources into that small corner of computer science so that he can hire new grads without having to bring them up on embedded systems work. I'm sure that CS departments with tons of resources can provide an embedded-systems track for undergraduates.
Actually he's looking for people who know how to track down a processor bug, report it appropriately to a manufacturer, and work around it. Would it demonstrate complete incompetence and a failure of my CS education to answer: "I would learn how to track it down, learn how to submit a report, and then figure out how to work around it."?
It's one thing to expect job candidates for AdaCore to be experienced embedded-system developers, but it's another thing to expect university CS departments to throw their resources into that small corner of computer science so that he can hire new grads without having to bring them up on embedded systems work. I'm sure that CS departments with tons of resources can provide an embedded-systems track for undergraduates.