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Updated May 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Imagination Technologies
Posted May 14, 2012
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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 Apr 2012 (took 2 months)
I had one phone interview which was full of general questions about my course in the university. Afterwards I had a C competency test and was invited to on site interview. It was 2 parts - with the people I was supposed to work with and with HR department. It continued 2.5 hours
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Hardware Design Engineer at Imagination Technologies
Posted Mar 11, 2012
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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 Nov 2011 (took 2 days)
Phone Interview consisted of questions on some basics on Digital Logic Design. This was followed by a project presentation, group interview on my project and one-one interview asking more digital logic design questions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Presentation, a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Leading Design Engineer at Imagination Technologies
Posted Oct 31, 2011 — 4 of 4 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Kings Langley, England (United Kingdom) (took 4+ weeks)
Phone screen included questions on how to implement floating point arithmetic, clock-domain crossing, ASIC design workflow. I thought I failed, but got called back for an in-person interview. At the in-person interview, I was quizzed on FIFO block diagrams, power saving modes, clock-domain crossing, VHDL code mistakes, then Python syntax and shallow copy problems. Overall quite intimidating and again I thought I didn't do that great.
This was one of the few in-person interviews where I really felt that I was still being intensely interviewed, instead of either a casual dialogue or the company taking the opportunity to show you their facility, great corporate culture, and try to recruit you to join their company. At ImgTec it was more like a pressure cooker, and then 'let's walk through the desk area' and 'here's the door'. Definitely didn't get that warm feeling that they wanted me or thought I'd be a good fit.
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Was able to negotiate the salary up by 3k from 40k to 43k, primarily due to the limited data available on GlassDoor. All/most reviews stated that the payscale at IMG was below market conditions. Employment contract included a 2-month notice period which I unsuccessfully tried to get decreased to 1 month.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a Group/Panel Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Na at Imagination Technologies
Posted Sep 21, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jan 2009 (took 5 days)
Fun interview with problem solving. Slightly off the wall questions but quite fun
Nice people - very informal, liked them straight away. Jeans & tshirts kinda people!
Amazing demo room with lots of cool demos in there which they showed me on the day & was also introduced to the team who were really friendly.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Test Engineer at Imagination Technologies
Posted Sep 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 Feb 2009 (took a day)
The interview is quite casual. Some technical questions. The guy interviewed me was very friendly.
There is nothing heard from them for like a month after the interview. Somehow when I asked I was told that I have made into the final few candidates for manager to decide. And then it was another a month or so waiting, after which eventually I was notified (again after I asked) no been accepted.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Hardware Engineer at Imagination Technologies
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Kings Langley, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
Firstly, I went to the Career Day for Graduates at the company and had the opportunity to spoke with managers. Then they send me an e-mail and asked me to make an application online. Then I went for an interview (technical 1:1) and after the 1:1 , 10 minutes interview with the HR manager. The technical interview included a recently implemented project in college (draw on the blackboard and discuss extensions). Then some basic digital design questions as:
1)Setup and hold times in flip flops, metastability.
2)Describe the Complete design cycle for an ASIC (block diagram, architecture, RTL design, synthesis, simulation, testing).
3)Write through vs write back caches.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Soft Engineer at Imagination Technologies
Posted Dec 4, 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 Dec 2010 in Kings Langley, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
The overall experience was positive and I learnt a lot of things about the work done at the company. It was my first interview and this experience was insightful.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a Presentation and a 1:1 Interview.
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Graduate Engineer at Imagination Technologies
Posted Sep 13, 2010 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2008 in Kings Langley, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
Online C test
Technical interview afterwards - C questions, logic puzzels
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Developer at Imagination Technologies
Posted Aug 11, 2010 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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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 May 2010 in Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
It all started with an e-mail by the HR manager asking to arrange a phone interview. The phone interviewer started asking me technical questions such as threads, static global variables, compiler optimisation and fundamental things about computer science and low level applications in general. That was followed by several personal questions. Not the general ones, they were specifically designed according to my CV and study background.
I got the feeling that I did not do very good, however, I received another e-mail from one member of the technical staff to invite me to an on-site interview. They were also interested in seeing some code of one of my old projects.
The interviewers were a group of 3. At first they asked me some personal questions and we had a very nice chat, with plenty of humor. Then there was a 3-page test that had to do with C. Questions started from the basic ones (pointers, pointer math, endiannes) and the last one was more advanced. Specifically, it was a small program and there were questions that had to with real time issues and others like "what would happen if such an incident occurred".
After that, I was given a tour of the building and I had the chance to meet employees and see how they work and what they do.
The last part was a small presentation of some code of mine, which lasted around 30 minutes.
During the whole process the atmosphere was very friendly and I really enjoyed talking to my interviewers. The test was also very interesting. I did not feel nervous at all, instead I was enjoying the conversation very much. The best part was the tour around their office.
All in all, the interview with them was a great experience that helped me a lot to improve myself and succeed in my second interview, that resulted in a job offer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a Presentation, a Group/Panel Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Hardware Engineer at Imagination Technologies
Posted Jul 6, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 (took a day)
I was interviewed via phone by an engineer and an HR manager. They asked me some very tricky questions about HW design. The answers were not so obvious. Also, due to the phone I couldn't sometimes understand the Engineer (he had also heavy British accent). The questions were actually problems of Digital Design. Also, they asked me about my past projects and my studies.
Finally, the HR manager asked me some general questions like: "Why did you apply for Imagination Technologies", "Tell me about your strong and weak points."
The interview last for about an hour.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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