2026 KPIT Embedded Internship Interview Experience

I applied for the KPIT embedded internship position in Shanghai in 2026, with a JD focusing on C/C++ microcontroller and peripheral development. Currently, there are very few related interview experiences on the Chinese internet, so this article briefly records the interview process and content. The position I interviewed for required cross-country collaboration with the company's departments in Germany and India, so the interview was primarily conducted in English, remotely via Microsoft Teams by interviewers from the Munich, Germany department.

Interview Process and Content

The first round was a technical interview, with a total of 4 interviewers in the Teams meeting room: one Chinese interviewer from the Shanghai department, and the other three Indian interviewers from the Munich department. Some Indian interviewers had accents, and the HR kindly reminded me before the interview that I could turn on Teams' real-time captions for assistance (though in the actual interview, the captions weren't very accurate). The interview lasted about 45 minutes, covering self-introduction, technical knowledge points, and project experience, followed by my questions to them and some simple information confirmation with the Shanghai department. Below are some questions I recall:

• Communication Related

  • Concept of CAN communication, channels used.

  • How to acquire and parse CAN packets at the driver level.

  • How to acquire data from packets at the application level.

  • Explain CAN's arbitration mechanism.

  • Introduce SPI.

  • In SPI, if the Slave needs to proactively send information, how is this achieved (note that the CLK channel is controlled by the Master).

  • How do SPI or I2C solve data corruption issues.

• C/C++ Compilation Related
  • Describe the compiler's compilation process.
  • If a function that has not been implemented is called, what kind of compilation error will occur? Can the compilation still output an object file?
  • Content of various fields in the sections output during compilation (.bss, .data, .text, etc.).
  • What issues can lead to stack overflow?
  • A .h header file exists, but cannot be found during compilation. What could be the reason?
  • What debug tools have you used?
• System Related
  • Have you used an RTOS? Have you used an OS on STM32?
  • Solutions for multi-threaded resource contention.
  • Under what circumstances do shared resources not need protection and will not cause problems?
  • Under what circumstances does a microcontroller's system reset itself? Can memory corruption lead to a reset?
  • Introduce the watchdog mechanism. What is the difference between a window watchdog and an independent watchdog?
• Other Project Questions
  • Explain the technical implementation ideas for some projects (here I was asked about details of OTA projects and experience with development toolchains).

Brief Summary and Musings

Looking back, the interview questions weren't particularly difficult, but some questions, if you haven't worked on actual projects, can't be answered by merely cramming textbook knowledge. For me, the biggest challenge was overcoming language and psychological barriers; secondly, textbook knowledge still needs comprehensive consolidation.

Finally, one last excuse (´ー`). I was still in North America during the interview, and the interview time was set according to Munich's timezone, so I was quite groggy when interviewed at 6 AM... Many questions were answered with uncertainty, and my spoken English wasn't very accurate or fluent. The HR had told me beforehand that this position currently doesn't prefer hiring short-term or North America-based students, so my first all-English interview was implicitly rejected without suspense.