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No Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Dec 2012 – Reviewed Apr 20, 2013
Interview Details – Online applications and call within 2-4 weeks. Strange thing manager called directly without scheduling an interview and started asking all sorts of questions. He was so impressed that towards the end he said the next round might be bypassed and HR might send the on-site invitation. Till date, I haven't heard back from them neither the HR nor the manager who called.
No Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA May 2012 – Reviewed Mar 16, 2013
Interview Details – first a phone interview, then a screening interview with a hiring manager. If you pass this screening process, you'll get to meet with 5 or 6 engineers not necessarily from the same team. The technical interview takes about 3~4 hours.
Interview Question –
1. what's the difference between matlab function and matlab script?
2. how does a system know when there is an error in the codeword?
Answer Question
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 9, 2013
Interview Details – Phone interview first then on site
Interview Question – Most questions are about timing, like setup time and hold time Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Have better offer
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA – Reviewed Mar 12, 2013
Interview Details – The interviews were purely technical. Also, they asked a lot about my resume including in-depth of my course work and work experience. Overall, all interviewers were very polite and respectful. The process was very pleasant.
Interview Question – Circuits about filter, and their input and output behavior. Phase shifter Answer Question
Negotiation Details – I didn't negotiate because the package was very satisfying. They offered the salary 10% more than my expected salary that I told them.
No Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Aug 2012 – Reviewed Jan 11, 2013
Interview Details – Initial phone screen with recruiter, then 1:1 interviews on site with hiring mgr and peers. Didn't hear back until a month later and then asked me to come back for final round interviews. Overall interviewed with probably 10 different people, and was more cultural fit type of interview questions and getting to know me. Everyone I interviewed with was considerate. Issue though in that I never heard back after final round interviews and it's been 5 months - I would expect after final round interviews at least a call back.
Interview Question – Why should I hire you over someone with finance and engineering background? Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Oct 2012 – Reviewed Dec 14, 2012
Interview Details – Contacted by hiring manager and got arranged a phone interview a week later. First self-introduce. Then got asked four technical questions. Clock frequency divider, digital circuit design- given 4 inputs, outputs and timing diagram to design gate level circuits, Verilog question about signed and unsigned integer... The interviewer was very nice and asked me about my interest.
Interview Question – Black box CRC circuit checking... Answer Question
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Jan 2008 – Reviewed Dec 4, 2012
Interview Details – Phone interview first by Director of mostly high level questions. Followed by onsite of about 5 people in 5 hrs. Notified in about 2 days regarding an offer. They needed verifications of my current pay to "match" salary. Background check also took place.
Interview Question – None. Just know physical design concept and you should be fine. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – They asked my present pay, want to see proof before matching it.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA – Reviewed Nov 25, 2012
Interview Details –
I was called for a phone interview first, talk about my previous experience, mainly about my resume, and ask some simple digital circuit question. One week after, I was scheduled for a screen interview, with 5 interviewers, last more than 3 hours.
They asked some small questions, one guy still focus on the resume, some others ask some verilog question, some design question, quite straight-forward.
Interview Question – All the questions are clear and normal. eg. write FSM in verilog, some DFT related questions. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – No negotiation
No Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA – Reviewed Oct 18, 2012
Interview Details –
Interview process was straightforward. Phone interview followed by onsite with 6 1:1: interviews.
All basic design question from VLSI, datapath design and bus architectures.
The interview went well, but they have a simple policy of not responding to any emails under any pretext. I am under the assumption that I was not selected due to their strong inkling to be completely ignorant to my emails.
At this point I have no regard for a company that treats candidates so poorly; it just shows the amount of respect (or lack of) that they have for people in general.
Interview Question – Standard design questions. Answer Question
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Jul 2009 – Reviewed Sep 9, 2012
Interview Details – Interview will last for a full day by 6-7 engineers and managers.
Interview Question – Personality is the most important thing. View Answer
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