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Technical Support Engineer at LSI
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Wichita, KS Feb 2009 – Reviewed Apr 23, 2013
Interview Details – Interview was normal for technical position.
Interview Question – None really. Maybe your most difficult accomplishment in past jobs. View Answer
Negotiation Details – Was using a head hunter and he got me a bit more money but I was very underpaid but needed the job.
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Marketing Manager at LSI
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Feb 2012 – Reviewed Apr 15, 2013
Interview Details – Phone screen interview, then interview with about 4 members of the marketing team. It helps if you know someone there. They are very unorganized and unfocused, not knowing exactly what they need in their team.
Interview Question – Do you know how to create PPT slides? I thought that was odd - of course I do. Well, you better know how because there is a TON of reporting - all done through PPT. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – They don't negotiate.
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Firmware Engineer at LSI
No Offer – Interviewed in Jan 2013 – Reviewed Mar 27, 2013
Interview Details – Two rounds of phone screenings, followed by on-site interviews. The on-site interview process consisted of a an intro by the HR, followed by technical interviews by engineers and managers. You are expected to be an expert C programmer (you should know difference between static and non-static objects, stack and heap allocation, things like "volatile"), and an expert in firmware and device drivers. Storage experience (SCSI, RAID) helps.
Interview Question – A question about cache coherence protocols. View Answer
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Intern Verification at LSI
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 20, 2013
Interview Details –
The hire manager call me to interview. The interview is pretty easy,. it starts with my resume.
He asked every one of it., After that, he ask couple of question. Like the power, verilog coding, and set-up and hold time, also the synchronicity . On the same day, he invite me to a
lunch.
Interview Question – most about my resume Answer Question
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ASIC Design Engineer at LSI
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Mendota Heights, MN Jul 2009 – Reviewed Mar 13, 2013
Interview Details – Telephone Interview followed by on-site interview
Interview Question – Lot of Timing Questions and Digital Design Questions Answer Question
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Administratrive Assistant at LSI
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Allentown, PA Nov 2012 – Reviewed Mar 7, 2013
Interview Details – The job description as advertised and described during the interview was vastly different than reality. The real job was about 75% more difficult.
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Software Engineer at LSI
No Offer – Interviewed in Colorado Springs, CO Apr 2012 – Reviewed Feb 26, 2013
Interview Details – made a 45 min telephone interview followed by an onsite interview. Pretty basic questions during phone interview (static, volatile, OS concepts, interrupts, linked list basics, arrays, ex tern, memory alignment, how can you realize weather the stack is increasing upward or decreasing downward)
Interview Question – implement malloc without using any system call. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at LSI
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Milpitas, CA Apr 2010 – Reviewed Feb 2, 2013
Interview Details – I received an email to come in for an interview. The process to me seemed very casual as I had to talk to a regular employee as well as the manager. You get an introduction to what the company is about and a walk through the company.
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Applications Engineer at LSI
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Colorado Springs, CO – Reviewed Jan 9, 2013
Interview Details – 5 Interviews with in one session. 3 technical interviews, 1 Human-Resources/Teamwork style interview, 1 Lunch with a practicing engineer for you to get to know the employees, and for them to get to know you as well
Interview Question – Much of the questions were computer architecture based, thus knowledge of communication systems and PC standards (DDR, DRAM, PCIe, SCSI) is beneficial Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Accepted an offer at a competing company nearer to home
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ASIC Design Verification at LSI
No Offer – Interviewed in Milpitas, CA Dec 2012 – Reviewed Dec 31, 2012
Interview Details – Applied through on-line, and got a phone call from HR after 3 days. The phone interview was about 50 mins. Interviewer spoke very fast with a strong accent. I had to ask repeating the question several times.
Interview Question –
How to synchronize a clock in two different time domain?
Hold/setup time violation and how to fix?
Questions from timing analysis
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