Sleep current sixty times too high

The code

Embedded C for Cortex-M. It compiles. There are 3 real bugs in it: the kind that pass a bench test and fail in the field.

void enter_low_power(void)
{
    HAL_ADC_Stop(&hadc1);
    HAL_GPIO_WritePin(GPIOB, SENSOR_EN_PIN, GPIO_PIN_RESET);
    /* leave all other GPIOs as they were */
    HAL_DBGMCU_EnableDBGStopMode();
    HAL_PWREx_EnterSTOP2Mode(PWR_STOPENTRY_WFI);
}

What an interviewer expects

• Point to each line you'd stop in a code review.
• Say what actually breaks: the failure mode, not just the rule it violates.
• Fix it, then defend the fix when asked the follow-up.

The bugs, reference fixes and the follow-up question are in the practice app, after you've tried it.

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