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Updated May 23, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Mar 2012 in Sunnyvale, CA (took a day)

Phone interview with the manager. Just a quick confirmation on availability and past experience.
Onsite interview - consisted of 6 people. 2 managers, 3 engineers, and hr.

It was weird being interview by a board designer since I was applying for an AE job.

Interview Questions

Design a power supply filter with suppression for 200MHz.

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Explain the initialization sequence of PCIE

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What mathematical method to determine the maximum/minimum point of an arbitrary waveform

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Reason for Declining

Got another offer

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 3 months)

Several rounds of technical Interview from engineers and managers from both US and AMCC Pune. Mostly interviewed on technical areas. Take a lot of time before they call you for a face to face interview. Interview complication level was average.

Negotiation Details

They were not negotiating with the salary.

Other Details

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

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4.0

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2011 in Sunnyvale, CA (took a day)

I recently got a phone interview with AMCC for a staff Analog Mixed Signal IC design position, and the experience was very bad, and probably the worst in my life.

1. The hiring manager was late for 10 mins, and he was a guy from Iran and graduated in
Stanford in 2006 with a background in optical networking.
2. He had no interest in explaining the organization of the company, but just went ahead
to ask me to introduce myself, and then jumped right into the technical questions.
3. The technical questions were totally disoriented, and this manager kept asking
diverse questions from different fields and changed topics after either he got no answer
in 5 seconds and/or got the answer right the way; without giving me the opportunities to
think and analyze his questions.

All in all, this is a very pushy and highly stressful interview from a very impatient and big ego
manager. If you have a choice, do NOT choose to work for such people if you don't
want to shorten your life expectancy by years !

Interview Questions

Why do you feel you fit this job ?

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

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2009 (took a day)

DRC? ERC? LVS? RCX? Physical design? Mim Cap

Interview Questions

Explain punch though current in cmos

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Latch up ?

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Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 4+ weeks)

Phone interview was quite brief (about 10~15min). They asked about my background and recent work, no technical questions. In a few days, they asked me to come for an onsite interview. Questions were not tough, fairly reasonable undergraduate level. I thought I did not bad, but it turned out that I should have been perfect, 'cause the questions were easy. Questions were quite fundamental things, so any missed answer might make them think I am on the shallow basis without through fundamentals.