RF Engineering

Job Interview Questions and Answers

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Question: What is your experience with RF technology?
Answer: You can describe what you know about it, specific projects you have done, or relevant
places you worked in government, security, information technology industries, etc.
Question: Where did you work in the field of RF engineering?
Answer: Begin with specific places you worked, like government agencies or manufacturing
companies. You can then briefly add what exactly you did in RF engineering in each of those places.
Question: Tell me about your experience in RF design and implementation.
Answer: Describe any jobs or assignments you were involved in with wireless telecommunication,
with an emphasis on design, implementation, and optimization of networks. Describe responsibilities
like initial system dimensioning and design, coverage and frequency planning, interference analysis,
etc.
Question: What do you know about optimization in RF engineering?
Answer: Give specific examples from personal experience: antennae selection, tilting (mechanical
or electrical), antenna clearance, power settings, etc.
Question: What do you know about model calibration, map generation, frequency planning, data
post-processing, and data-base maintenance?
Answer: You can define these responsibilities, give examples of your experience performing them,
and add information on your familiarity with relevant propagation tools, like Wizard, Planet, Tornado,
etc.
Question: Did you ever participate in recruitment processes and/or coaching other RF
engineers?
Answer: If you did, describe how you chose candidates, and how you advertised and conducted the
recruitment campaign. Talk about any presentations and manuals you might have made as part of
coaching campaigns you participated in.
Question: Give me a demonstration of your communication skills.
Answer: Describe anything related to communication with colleagues, clients, and management:
presentations and reports, phone and online communication, client representation, coaching, etc.
Question: Do you have experience managing project budget?
Answer: If you do, describe budget and milestone reports you did, and strategies you developed,
proposed, and implemented to achieve RF project milestones on time.

Question 1: Define RF Signals?

Answer : Radio Frequency Signals are high frequency AC Signals Composed of EM Energy.
Question 2: When we get the higher signal strength in RF?
Answer: If Amplitude of the RF signal is higher then Signal Strength will be higher so as vice
versa.
Question3 : why we Prefer Transmission through RF and Microwave ?
Answer : Broadband Information Signals required High Frequency Signals.
Question4: what is the speed of prorogation of RF Signals.
Answers : Speed of Propagation of RF Signals is equal to that of speed of light.
Question5 : what happens when multi path reflection occurs in RF Signal.
Answer : Signal Degradation and Holes in Coverage area of Microwave Network.
Question6: How the Antenna Gain is Calculated?
Answer : First of all direction is determined and then we calculate what would be power
level at the same distance from the isotropic radiator.
Question7: when VSWR(Voltage standing Waves Ratio? occurs.
Answer7 : when their is mismatch in impedance and signal is reflected at point of
impedance , which will result in decreased amplitude.
Question8: which is the commonly used transmission line RF and Microwave.
Answer: Coaxial Line.
1. Whats a PCB? Printed Circuit Board.
2. Name some band definitions. L-Band - 1-2 GHz, S-Band - 2-4 GHz, C-Band - 4-8 GHz, X-Band
- 8-12 GHz, Ku-Band - 12-18 GHz.
3. Whats the definition of gain? The signal going into the device is smaller than the signal going
out.
4. Whats a definition of an amplifier? Its a device that exhibits gain.
5. Insertion loss? The signal going in is greater than the signal thats coming out.
6. Thermal impedance? A measure of how hot the device gets with varying electrical input.
7. Whats the relation between dB and change of signal? +3 dB is 2 times bigger, +10 dB is 10
times bigger.
8. Whats an octave? The bandwidth characterized by higher band being twice as much as lower
band (100-200 MHz).

9. Whats a decade? A bandwidth, where the higher band is 10x the lower band (100 MHz - 1
GHz).
10. Skin effect? The signal is reported on the surface of the object, but not inside, e.g. a solid brick
wall.
11. VSWR? Voltage Standing Wave Ratio. The numeric representation of the device leak, written like
X:1 where X is greater when the leak is greater and 1:1 is the absolute no-leakage VSWR.
12. Describe an impedance matching circuit. A circuit capable of changing the impedance with
different values for incoming and outgoing impedance.
13. Describe circular polarization. The signal travels both vertically and horizontally.
14. Whats the job of the amplifier? To increase the incoming signal.
15. What is noise figure? The level of noise that a low-noise amplifier (LNA) is capable of
discriminating.
16. Whats a transfer curve? It is a graph of the output power versus the input power of an amplifier.
17. Whats the 911 point? The point where the input power results in flames on the other end.
18. Whats saturation point? The point where the amplifier loses its linearity of the transfer curve.
19. What does balanced amplifier consist of? Two amplifiers stuck together.
20. What is the filters function? To filter out all the unwanted radio signals.
21. What filter types are there? Low-pass (all frequencies below are allowed to pass in), high-pass,
bandpass (all frequencies of a given bandwidth are allowed) and band-reject.
22. What are saw filters used for? Very low frequency filtering.
23. What are mixers used for? To change the frequency of the signal.
24. Whats a superheterodyne receiver? Its a receiver that uses two mixers in a row.
25. Describe VCO. Voltage-controlled oscillators change the frequency of the produced sine wave
depending on the voltage they receive.
26. Who is responsible for PLLs? Phase-locked loops are done by synthesizer, that samples the
sine wave and if its not good enough, changes it.