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Updated Mar 19, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Verification Engineer at Cavium Networks
Posted Mar 19, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
Binary tree,STL.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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DFT Engineer at Cavium Networks
Posted Mar 14, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Marlborough, MA (took 3 weeks)
Phone interview had a lot of basic design questions. Got called for an onsite interview which consisted of 6 back to back 1 hour interviews. Logic, Devices, Comp Arch, DFT, VLSI were covered in the interviews. Difficulty increased as I answered the questions. Some design questions were asked. Pipelining was asked in Comp Arch.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Hardware Engineer at Cavium Networks
Posted Jan 1, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Marlborough, MA (took 1+ week)
It was more of going through my resume and testing my basics. Although I was not interviewing for design engineering position, one interview was completely on design stuff which I didnt do well. I was interviewed by 8 people on first day and they asked me to come back for another short interview which was done by 3 more people. They basically tested my problem solving skills and I got a job in a domain in which I had very little experience. This was a good opportunity for me to change domains and get wider exposure.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Engineering at Cavium Networks
Posted Dec 7, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 1+ week)
Very long and somewhat grueling. Lots of technical questions. Interesting problems to solve.
Good and smart people to work with though.
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Tough. Their scales are average.
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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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Senior Verification Engineer at Cavium Networks
Posted Apr 11, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 2 weeks)
Basic architecture and data structures
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Verification Engineer at Cavium Networks
Posted Jan 31, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)
Started with a phone interview. That led to an interview appt where i was interviewd by 4 people. First person was the VP of verification. Asked general questions and a problem question regarding a C++ algorithm. Assume u had a list of some sort (array, hash, etc). Something like how would u sort and order the list efficiently so that the elements were in order. I think the list was of hw addresses. Typical bubble sort, etc not good enough. The other interview panel just wanted to know if i had some sense of C++ and Verilog understanding.
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VP of engineering was very cheap and rigid. Show several ways you can help and possibly help in the future and peg the amount you want. Open it up for discussion and ask him to support his offer - the VP of verification seems very factual and is flexible if you give a good answer.
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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 Group/Panel Interview.
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Verification Engineer at Cavium Networks
Posted Jan 19, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 (took a day)
The interview consisted of questions on C++ and Computer Architecture. Few questions on Verilog were also asked.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Hardware Engineer at Cavium Networks
Posted Dec 16, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Marlborough, MA (took 2 weeks)
The interview process normally involves 2 phone screens (more if they are undecided) . The phone screens tend to be rather technical. I was applying for an RTL position and I was asked to design some state machines, questions about verilog and a C related question. None of which were very difficult. I would suggest talking what you are thinking and as you are designing so that way they get a better understanding of your thought process. The second phone interview was lower level, including some rf topics. If you get past the phone screens they will bring you out to MA for a onsite interview. You will do a series of 1:1 interviews with sr. members from the group along with the manager. There is a break were they take you out to lunch.
Plan on a lot of white-board writing and mostly design based questions. Some interviewers like to test your knowledge and will keep asking more challenging questions until you do not know the answers.
Tips: Show a lot of interest and desire to work in the field. Be calm and confident.
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Negotiation Details
There was not that much to negotiate, because they have a standard amount for college grads. I believe it is more flexible for experienced hires.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Digital Design Engineer at Cavium Networks
Posted Jul 2, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 (took a day)
Applied online and did one set of phone interview. Even though she told me there will be a second phone interview, I didn't hear back.
Setup/hold time violation
Asynchrnous FIFO
MOESI protocol
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Cavium Networks
Posted Jun 14, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 (took a day)
interview by one engineer of the company for about one hour. lots of technical questions, in fact, nothing but technical ones, including c programming, verilog and system verilog, etc. didn't get much chance to know more about the culture of the company though.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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