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ARM Holdings Interview Questions & Reviews
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IP Modeling at ARM Holdings
No Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Jul 2012 – Reviewed Aug 15, 2012
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I got an Email for setting up a phone interview. I arranged it tomrrow mornning 10AM.
The other morning 10AM, I got a call from a lady. And she asked many simple questions:such as which kinds of lib would I use, set up and hold time. She was a nich lady and confirm my answer was correct. Then she told me I will get a follow up Email. After that phone interview, I have heared nothing from ARM anymore.
Interview Question – None, all the questions were simple, nothing about technology Answer Question
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Design Engineer at ARM Holdings
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Austin, TX Dec 2011 – Reviewed Dec 13, 2011
Interview Details – Ask questions based on Cmos circuits design , Sram and other circuit questions. Transistor level.
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- Basic SRAM 6T transistor structure. Answer Question
- Layout techniques. Answer Question
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Design Verification Engineer at ARM Holdings
No Offer – Interviewed in Austin, TX Jul 2011 – Reviewed Aug 13, 2011
Interview Details – Overall Interview process was smooth and informative. People are nice and asked various ques regarding Comp Arch, Multi-Core issues, Validation Concepts, C, C++ etc
Interview Question – C++ related Questions View Answer
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Engineer at ARM Holdings
No Offer – Interviewed in Austin, TX Nov 2010 – Reviewed Apr 16, 2011
Interview Details – Seemed more interested in learning about current employer than filling a position.
Interview Question – STA, crosstalk, floor planning. Answer Question
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Engineering at ARM Holdings
No Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Nov 2010 – Reviewed Nov 21, 2010
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I received a phone call from the hiring manager and had a short discussion to come in for an on-site interview in the ARM Physical IP Division. I first met with HR, followed by 8 engineers. All interviewers were pleasant to speak with; most asked a combination of behavioral and technical questions.
I came away with a good impression of ARM. I did not receive an offer, as they were looking for someone with more experience.
Interview Question – What is the logic function of this pass transistor schematic? Answer Question
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Internship at ARM Holdings
No Offer – Interviewed in Austin, TX Jul 2010 – Reviewed Jul 25, 2010
Interview Details – Applied online and then got an email from one of the technical engineers. First round of interview was fairly simple interview with basic computer architecture questions. Then, after that, a senior level engineer called with more computer architecture questions and a few questions on algorithms and c++ related questions. I think I answered them all correctly.
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- Why does Intel Pentium 4 has so many pipeline stages? Answer Question
- MOESI, what does they stand for? What about memory model? How to implement store commit in weak memory model? Answer Question
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CPU Modeling Engineer at ARM Holdings
No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 30, 2013
Interview Details – Applied via staffing agency in UK. It took almost a month for ARM to short list my profile for above position. The interviewer was friendly but spoke very fast and I was applying from outside UK. So it was little difficult for me to understand every word of his. Nonetheless, I answered most of the questions related to RTOS, scheduling, CPU architecture, interrupt handling confidently. Even he indicated that I was quite right about the answers. In the end he asked couple of questions about cache, virtual memory and if I knew about virtualization. Overall the call lasted 45mins. As per the feedback I was rejected because I did not have experience in cache, virtualization. I felt it was unfair since none of these skills were listed under essential/desirable skills in JD
Interview Question – What is virtualizaition Answer Question
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Industrial Placement - SDD Productivity Tools Group at ARM Holdings
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Cambridge, South West England, England (UK) Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 24, 2013
Interview Details – The first interview was a telephone interview that was approximately 45 minutes long. This consisted of questions testing knowledge of programming languages on your CV. Next was a programming test where I was emailed a problem and had 4 hours to code a solution. After this was a face to face interview, this consisted of mostly technical questions and offline programming problems.
Interview Question – Asked to write solutions for various programming problems on paper/whiteboard. Answer Question
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IT Graduate at ARM Holdings
No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 21, 2013
Interview Details – two phone interviews before assessment day. Only a few basic technical questions and more talk on CV and company itself
Interview Question – Nothing difficult, very casual conversation Answer Question
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Graduate Engineer at ARM Holdings
No Offer – Reviewed Mar 20, 2013
Interview Details – I did a phone interview some time ago and know I have an appointment for an assesment centre and a face-to-face interview.
Interview Question – Technical questions about Java, C/C++ and SQL Answer Question
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