Altera Software Engineer Interview Questions & Reviews
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Software Engineer at Altera
Posted Nov 4, 2011
3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 3 weeks)
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.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Altera
Posted Jul 30, 2011
4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Santa Cruz, CA (took 2 days)
First phone interview was thorough, and had me solve a couple of problems. In person interview was good had several different people pose problems to solve. The workplace is pretty laid back, but people work hard.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Altera
Posted May 9, 2009
4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2007 in Santa Cruz, CA (took 4 weeks)
First, I had a phone screening with an Engineering Manager. He went through my resume, asking questions relating to my previous experience. After elaborating on my experience working in large software projects and using established software practices, he started asking me very simple technical questions.
A few days later, I got an email from HR telling me that the screening went well, and asking me to come for an onsite. Then, I had interviews with two panels of 2 or 3 engineers, asking relevant Software Engineering questions, and your typical coding whiteboarding. Later I had lunch with the hiring manager.
About a week after, I got another email from the Hiring Manager saying that the interviews went well, and asking me to come in for a presentation. I had to come in and give a presentation to a larger set of engineers on any topic I chose.
Finally, after that was done, I was given an offer.
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I'm not good at negotiating.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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