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Design Engineer IV at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Dec 10, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Austin, TX (took a day)
The people who interviewed me were good. The office is very shabby there is not even a freescale board for the building. HR is unprofessional, Very unorganized.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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ASIC Design Engineering at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Aug 27, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Tianjin (China) (took a day)
freescale contacted me about a position with the print team. i was well paid and was doing well at the company i was with at the time, but i agreed to interview anyway. the head of global print operations was under a lot of pressure due to the lawsuits, etc. yet, he needed headcount, especially they needed help with the actual print operation and the quality problems they were having at the time.
the job was for a permanent position — why else would they go through a grueling 2 days of interviews for a contractor? but when i pressed him on salary and asked him to match and provide much more than what i was making and i anchored at an amount, he buckled and made it contractual instead.
he waffled, so i said “no thanks”.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted May 4, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took 1 week)
One of my friend working in the company referred me for the job. The first round was a telephonic interview round which went for about one hour. One week later, a telepresence interview was taken for about 1.5 hours after which I was offered the job.
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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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Modeling Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Mar 20, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2008 in Tempe, AZ (took a day)
Just before my Ph.D defense a friend referred me for a job as a device modeling engineer at Freescale's tempe campus. The interview started at 9.30 amwith my hour long presentation. This was followed by one on one interviews with 10 engineers from the group lasting approx 20-30 minutes each. There was the usual 45-50 min lunch break with the manager and the director/VP when I was taken out to local restaurant. The interview process lasted until 6.30 pm which I think was stretched out. I was told I will be the last person in the group to be hired out of N. America... the future expansion plans and subsequent hiring will be all out of Freescale's Shangai facility and I will have to work with them.....blah blah
I never heard from them again .... probably they hired someone who speaks mandarin ...
I work for a US defense contractor now.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Presentation and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Feb 26, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2008 (took a day)
This might be a little bit special case as Freescale was trying to setup a local sw team from the group of motorola who get just layedoff. There was a close relationship between these two companies and you know most of the persons. Therefore the interview is kind of general and many are puzzle or high level questions.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Logic Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Feb 12, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2008 (took a day)
i entered the room and there were 2 interviewers.
they asked me about my studies (it was a student position), which courses i liked\disliked.
they also asked me about my current job. then they discribed a bit the position itself and left me some room for questions and then the technical interview started.
there were supposed to be 2 technical interviews but because i was a student there was only 1.
after passing the interview i was offered a contract by the HR person.
Interview Questions
a from can leap to the top of the ladder in 2 ways:
1)leap 1 leg
2)leap 2 legs
how many ways there is for the from to climb to the top of the ladder
ie, when a ladder has 3 legs the frog can jump 2 legs and then 1, 1 legs and then 2 and 1 leg three times - for a total of 3 ways to jump up the ladder
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Design Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Nov 10, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2007 in Austin, TX (took 2 days)
general experience summary of work done, including work I'm interested in and responsibilities both as individual contributor and as supervisor roles.
Initial phone screen followed by individual one on one interviews - three
solid people in interview process and interesting work to be done.
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Reason for Declining
Happy w/ current position
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Master Planning Analyst at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Sep 9, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2007 (took 4+ weeks)
Phone interview with HR, hiring manager and then in person interview. HR and hiring manager asked behavioral interview question and in person interview was basically informal discussion. Office in Tempe is rather drab, if you are going to work for FSL, I suggest you seriously consider moving to Austin.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer for Validation at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Aug 4, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2007 in Austin, TX (took 1 week)
The job was validation engineering which is very low level. The supervisor knew me from a previous company and liked my work. So when they had a req come open, he asked if I was interested. The initial interview took place over lunch with him, the dept mgr, and a team member. It was very friendly and encouraging. Then the formal interview process was set up 3 or 4 days later and it was practically all day with an hour one on one with different team members. Their interview style was mostly like a pop quiz at school...very specific questions about programming language and hardware/processor details as a rule. What I should have done more of is tell stories about I had performed at previous positions. So, one of the team members was not that happy with my performance, but the supervisor and his boss really liked me. It came down to meeting over lunch again with just the dept mgr. I was advised by my friend the supervisor to get very specific about my accomplishments and that convinced the mgr to make an offer.
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I was not able to negotiate. The salary and benefits offer were better than what I had at the previous job, but a lot less time off. They were inflexible on that.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Testing Software Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Mar 11, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2007 (took a day)
The interview was consistent.
The location was in a meeting room, on the top floor.
It seemed to be an administrative floor, with no production engineers around.
The interview was clear, with a presentation map being given.
All questions seemed to be from a standard interview list.
Questions were simple and clear and the people there were really wanting to get the answer from the candidate.
Good impression.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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