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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Lawyer at Marvell Technology
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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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 Feb 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2+ months)
The process started with a phone call, then 1:1 interviews with the team and then execs. It took a while due to transitions happening on team. Overall, it was challenging but fun.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Electrical Engineer at Marvell Technology
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
It is a job fair. After submitting the resume, everyone gets a test paper with several problems. No time limit. Just return it to the technical staff when you are done.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Test Engineer at Marvell Technology
Posted Jan 20, 2012
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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 Nov 2011 in Chandler, AZ (took a day)
I interviewed in Marvell for ATE test position and I must say I had very good experience unfortunately I could not convert the offer. Most of the questions where related to Digital Design, CMOS inverter,Voltage Transfer characteristics. Also some pure logic based questions.
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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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Senior SQA Engineer at Marvell Technology
Posted Dec 26, 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 Mar 2011 in Marlborough, MA (took 3 weeks)
You will only be considered for employment here if you graduated from a top tier university and had a GPA of at least 3.5, regardless of how long ago it was or what your professional achievements have been since then. If you didn't have a 3.5 GPA, don't even bother applying unless the top guy has left. Even the receptionist had to be personally approved by the top guy and was held to these standards.
Everyone was professional and overall my experience was positive. Communication was prompt and courteous. Office culture depends on the group you join. Management is "old school" and a suit is a good idea, though once you're in the door it would appear to be more casual. Be smart without being conceited and stay positive.
The SQA manager has no engineering background and does not "get it." She thinks "widgets is widgets" applies to software and prefers manual testing to investing in developing automated testing suites; she thinks buttons must be physically pushed in order to properly exercise any of the software. She does not appreciate how quality needs to be built into the product from the start. Apparently some development groups understand that and others don't.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Physical Design Engineer at Marvell Technology
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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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 Nov 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 2+ weeks)
The interviewers seemed pretty cool & were encouraging so that i can find the solutions to the problems at hand. It's a pretty tricky process & you need to know in & out of stuff you are taking about or else you are screwed. Advice- Be very confident & a bit cocky.
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Negotiation Details
The HR is bad & doesn't allow negotiation.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Digital Engineer at Marvell Technology
Posted Nov 27, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 (took a day)
nitial phone screen (2) by hiring manager + junior employee
then I received a phone call telling me to go to an onsite interview
the onsite interview consisted of 6 1:1 interviews, first one is HR, the following 5 are all engineers
one person was mostly asking about asybchronous FIFO and communication btw 2 clock domains
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Design Verification Engineer at Marvell Technology
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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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 Aug 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
Initial phone screen (2) by hiring manager + junior employee (<3 years out of college).
Manager asks conceptual and higher level questions. Junior employee asks coding questions (dictates a piece of code and asks questions on that (SystemVerilog)
Have to fill out online profile and NDA before going onsite.
Onsite interview start with meeting HR person who collects compensation information and asks questions like why you left each of your previous employers, why you are applying now, what other companies you are talking to, what factors you will use to decide the offer etc. Later met with hiring manager (heads design+verif), 1 design engineer and 2 verif engineers (junior+senior).
Hiring Manager asks high level questions: e.g where will you place coverage collection for stimulus applied to DUT (monitor Vs driver)
Junior verif person asks more coding questions and Behavioural interview (how to deal w/ diffcult person, failures in past etc)
Design engineer asks some Verilog question and how to test a particular design.
I give all of them an A for the interview.
Other Sr Verif engineer was extremely challenged even to speak couple of sentences in English. He just thrust a piece of paper in front of me typed with a couple of questions. They had non standard terminology and despite repeated requests to explain the terms refused to do so. He kept repeating "just read the question and answer it". After some time I figured out what was the question and gave the answer. He claimed the answer was wrong and asked me to try again. After I came back I googled and found that my answer was correct. He could have moved on to additional questions and had a better/larger sample to make a decision, but stuck with the 2 questions throughout the 45 minute interview. This person should have been trained and lacked basic communication/interview skills in English.
Be prepared for coding questions (some code w/ bug in it etc) regardless of how experienced you are.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Software Engineer at Marvell Technology
Posted Sep 27, 2011
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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 Sep 2011 in Beijing, Beijing (China) (took 2+ weeks)
the interviewer first described the role of the team and then went on to ask a bunch of system related fundamental technical questions: about c++ object-oriented questions, like virtual functions and virtual destructors, and the process of linker and load, memory systems, how cache works, some about linux commands. all about 30 minutes.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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ASIC Design Engineer at Marvell Technology
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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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 2011 in Aliso Viejo, CA (took a day)
all basic digital design questions
Interview Questions
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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PCA Process, Test at Marvell Technology
Posted Sep 4, 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 Mar 2010 in Tai Seng (Singapore) (took a day)
Interview question involve technical, project management.
Interview question does involve the reason of leaving, understand about job scope and role responsibility.
Interviewer described the position applied require travelling at most of time.
On top of this, the position applied require to develop test script to supplier as well as support supplier to bring up product test yield.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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