Senior Hardware Engineer Mock Interview

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Question 17 of 30

While the functionality of a piece of hardware is important, companies use other criteria when deciding whether to develop a piece of equipment. Can you discuss some of these?

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William Swansen

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It is easy for senior hardware engineers to become enamored with their own designs and ignore other criteria their organizations use to evaluate the viability of a piece of hardware. The interviewer will ask this question to make sure you do not fall into this category and understand that good hardware designs are evaluated on a wide range of criteria, not only their functionality and performance.

William Swansen

"While my primary design criteria when working on a piece of new hardware are performance and functionality, I recognize that other criteria will be used to evaluate my design and determine if the hardware will be manufactured. I keep these in mind when going through the process of designing a new piece of equipment. Some of these include manufacturability, user interface, reliability, repairability, support requirements, cost, and the time required to develop, test, and manufacturer the hardware."

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