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Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Sep 2008 (took a day)

They will call you. Questions will be based on the type of jobs they are looking for. WIll ask you what are your current job scope, your job responsibility, (maybe your current pay, the benefits you get from the current employer). Basic knowledge of the working field is a must.

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Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a co-worker who wasn't doing his/her fair share of the work. What did you do and what was the outcome?

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How do you get along with older (younger) co-workers?

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2010 in San Jose, CA (took a day)

Applied online, received a call from the hiring manager a few days later. Spoke w/ the hiring manager for a quick phone screen and we determined that I probably wouldn't be a good fit for the company. The challenges of working on the team sounded interesting, but I didn’t have the proper background for it. The interviewer was more interested in my college coursework and my choice in text editors than what I’ve done professionally. This felt a little short sighted, but it’s where the interview went for most of the time. My impression of the company is that it sounds like a typical large scale engineering business with lots of layers and lots of process.

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How would you recursively count the leaves on a binary tree?

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Tell me about your college coursework, what did you take, what did you learn

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do you prefer emacs or vi

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2010 (took a day)

Process of interview :
1. Self Introduction
2. Working Experience
3. Question on Fundamental of digital design
4. Expectation

majority of the people is interested in the Question on Fundamental of digital design:
1. Timing Analysis (setup time, hold time, metastability issue, maximum frequency)
2. How does a mux of 3 input can be used for 2 input and gate
etc

Interview Questions

How to use a 3input mux to create a 2 input AND gate?

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2010 in San Jose, CA (took a day)

I initially received information about some available positions with this company through a contact at an FCCM conference. I provided this contact with my resume and research statement, and he forwarded my information to the team managers. A team manager contacted me through email to set up a phone interview. The interview with the manager went okay, but he didn't seem familiar with several components of my research. After discussing my research, he asked me to construct several algorithms for binary trees. I answered all the questions correctly, but for two of the questions he had to clarify some of what he said because I misunderstood what he was referring to.

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After I gave him a solution to construct an algorithm to count the leaves in a tree (which was correct), he asked me to do the problem again another way.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 3 days)

Interviewer very polite and helping. I was asked below questions.
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Describe circuit operation of level shifter & mux.
Basic question on PERL & spice modeling
Relation between threshold voltage & temperature.
Why do you want to leave your current job and want to work for altera.
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Did not receive any reply after on-site interview.

Interview Questions

What is spice option for accuracy.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Nov 2008 in San Jose, CA (took 2+ weeks)

Very technical but based on past experience

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Si related questions

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Other Details

I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2008 (took 2 days)

Started with simple understanding of technical questions in phone interview.
After passing phone interview, the 1:1 interview took about 2-3 hours separately with each team member.

Interview Questions

When you login to Microsoft Windows, can you describe how authentication works?

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Mar 2010 (took a day)

Very efficiente staff, in a few days everyhing was ready for the interview.
The questions go from the easy to the difficult ones.
You will notice different levels of agressivenes depending on the interviewer.
-Indian interviewer was very very agressive... high voice volume. Wanted ultra precise answers.-
-Asian interviewers were much more relaxed and talkative, nice guy.
-Iranian interviewer was straight to the point but very polite, approximate answer was fine.

Interview Questions

PLL block, transfer function, stability.
Phase or frequency detector?? Indian guy picky about these two.

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Not really, the offer is usually reasonable.

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Apr 2008 (took a day)

My resume was forwarded and recommended by a friend. It started by a phone screening from the manager, asking about my current job position and probed into my interest. He also promoted the job offered and shared a little about the company's benefits. We then scheduled an on-site interview. It was a 1:1 interview lasted for about 2 hours and I was then asked to wait for an offer from staffing.

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what is CMOS

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 (took a day)

First met with Hiring Manager. Was asked to describe the two blocks I had designed. Was asked probing questions about why and how I had made certain design decisions. Was asked how I interacted with people and give examples of a difficult situation I had handled. Then two Lead Engineers came in and asked me to give a presentation of a Specification document I had written. After that, I was shown two examples of code written by their Engineers and asked to explain what the code was doing.