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Senior Test Development Engineer at Altera
Declined Offer – Interviewed in May 2012 – Reviewed Jun 10, 2012
Interview Details – Interview is good consists of a lot of technical questions
Interview Question – what is differential amplifier Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Too many politics within organization . Not technical manager lead technical members
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Hardware Developer at Altera
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON (Canada) Apr 2012 – Reviewed Jun 5, 2012
Interview Details –
Applied for a general hardware engineer position and received an interview appointment by email. The first interview was a general knowledge test, very limited in time. There was two interviewers, one for the hardware aspects and the second for the software. Each one had 30 minutes with me. They have asked basic knowledge question - implement the NAND gate with 2-1 mux, implement pulse delay/expand line with flip-flops. and basic C programming questions.
After this interview I was invited to second one. It took more time (several hours) and there were 4 interviewer from different departments asking knowledge and logical questions.
Interview Questions
- Implement NAND gate with 2-to-1 multiplexer Answer Question
- Implement pulse delay/expand line with D-flipflops Answer Question
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Circuit Designer at Altera
No Offer – Interviewed in May 2012 – Reviewed May 8, 2012
Interview Details – Only one phone interview, scheduled by email. The position needs both digital and analog background.
Interview Question – Draw an inverter and asked a lot of questions based on that. Fall/rising time matching, how the current changes... Answer Question
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Engineering at Altera
No Offer – Interviewed in Jan 2012 – Reviewed Apr 4, 2012
Interview Details – After a phone interview, they flew me out to San Jose. Except for the airfare, I had to pay all expenses which I was told would be reimbursed. Accommodations were nice. On day of interview, I was met by the recruiter who wore jeans and an untucked dress shirt. I expected a little more professionalism. The day was planned out to have multiple interviews with several individuals/groups. Nothing went according to plan. I spent lots of time alone in the conference room waiting for the next interview. Few of the interviewers had read my resume until they met with me. They knew for days I was coming but yet the interview process was a disorganized mess. On the positive side, everyone I encountered was very nice and personable.
Interview Question – Hypothetical programming questions. Answer Question
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Hardware Engineer at Altera
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON (Canada) Jan 2012 – Reviewed Feb 15, 2012
Interview Details –
I was contacted via email and asked for a date. I was called on the decided date and time. The interviewers
were friendly.
Interview Questions
- Sequence generator 1110 Answer Question
- Sequence Detector 1110 Answer Question
- Questions on Perl - Asked to write a scripting code Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Altera
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON (Canada) Oct 2011 – Reviewed Nov 4, 2011
Interview Details –
Altera had a in school presentation about their Toronto site. I applied this job through school's job portal as well as email HR with my resume and transcript.
The interview was schedualed 2 weeks ahead.
There are two ppl interview me. Each with half hour.
The 1st interviewer was ask me some questions from my resume, most about my current research.
Then she ask me one question that: write function code to determinate if two rectangle if overlap or not.
The 2nd interviewer was ask about in a big matrix, with certain sized window. how to effecitly find the max window , and talk about how to implement it in hardware and software.
Interview Questions
- write function code to determinate if two rectangle if overlap or not. View Answer
- in a big matrix, with certain sized window. how to effecitly find the max window , and talk about how to implement it in hardware and software. Answer Question
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Human Resources at Altera
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in May 2011 – Reviewed Aug 18, 2011
Interview Details – It was great
Interview Question – How will your past experience shape your future strategies? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Very Fair
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Intern Computer Engineering at Altera
No Offer – Interviewed in Jan 2011 – Reviewed Jul 29, 2011
Interview Details – Single day, 2 sessions of 2 technical people coming in one at a time to ask technical questions. I thought that I was applying to a specific position, but when I got there they said that that position didn't really exist and that they were looking to see where I would fit, which through me for a loop because I'd studied for a specific area. I regret not getting more clarification ahead of time.
Interview Question – graph problems. Answer Question
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Senior Test Development Engineer at Altera
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Pulau Pinang (Malaysia) Sep 2010 – Reviewed May 30, 2011
Interview Details – Perceptions - work life balance, company with less meetings means more time for real work
Interview Question – Please give a few examples problems seen during silicon debug and how you solved them Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Were offered comparable compensation and benifits with current employer
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Engineering at Altera
No Offer – Interviewed in Jan 2011 – Reviewed May 27, 2011
Interview Details – Mostly just a filter interview where I was bombarded with intelligence questions
Interview Question – Draw the state machine logic for an elevator which has 4 floors. Take into account ALL factors (payload, speed, emergency cases) Answer Question
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