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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Neutral	27%
Negative	13%

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Received and Accepted Offer

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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Interviewed and No Offer

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.

Interview Questions

How will you deal with a difficult design engineer?

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What will you do if you made a big mistake?

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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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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Aug 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took 4 days)

It only took 4 days from the phone interview to the onsite interview. Most of the interview questions are technical. I was also asked about projects that I have done in school as well as at my previous job. The people who interviewed me were quite nice and respectful. Although it took a few weeks from the onsite interview to the offer letter, it was a good experience overall.

Interview Questions

What and where are the poles for a given op-amp?

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How do you minimize mismatches of a current mirror?

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)

There were total 5 ppl included the HR. And it took about 5 more hours. Each interviewer took about an hour to talked with me, and all the questions are technical based. Some of them from my project experience and some of them are design aspect and some of them are from verification field.

Interview Questions

Describe your task and what you achieved in your project?

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how to balance the pipeline stage to achieve any specific time period?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)

There are total four engineers came to interview with different aspect questions associated with the digital design topic, like timing issue, computer architecture and power consumption issue. i think I did great but still get no offer. And they delay the whole interview a lot and one of the interviewer went to meeting then skipped me, it's kind of disrespect.

Interview Questions

the questions related to the projects I've done in my graduate

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)

Had one phone interview and was called for an on-site interview after that. There were seven 1:1 interviews that day. Most of the interviews were basic communication/networking/software and resume based. The people who took my interview were very nice and it was a good experience for me - my first on-site interview. Its been over a month now and haven't heard back. Tried contacting HR (via email and phone) and was told they''l get back after asking the main recruiter for the group and again haven't heard back since then. Communication with HR has been quite bad. The least they could do is inform me about the status, even if it is a reject.

Interview Questions

You have seven stones and a weighing scale. Six of the stones are equal in weight and one is lighter. How will you figure out which one is lighter ? Minimum tries required to do so ?

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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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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 1+ week)

Had a phone call with manager and later interviewed for multiple positions....
1:1 and group/panel interview was all about the resume and small design questions and comp arch questions.
They were looking for answers but never looked at the approach.....that was really bad....and I was not comfortable with interviewers except for couple of people

Interview Questions

frequency divide by 3 clk circuit

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Reason for Declining

Had a better offer in hand

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)

Phone Interview asking the following

1. Why you want to change your current job?
2. What responsibilities you had in your previous job

Interview Questions

nothing in particular

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 3+ months)

It was stressed to me over and over again that Marvell was a company where you were expected to work long hours around the clock and that employees were not expected to have a life outside of work. More than one team member mentioned that upper management micromanaged the team and that salaries were reviewed by the executive team for even individual contributors.

Most people I spoke with were very pleasant but lacked basic interviewing skills. Only one person asked any questions that would ferret out real world experience. I was surprised at the lack of difficult questions and disorganized sessions. Several interviewers seemed interested in only learning what they could about my previous employers' product line, and asked questions that were IMO unethical with regards to patents and trade secrets, including margins and revenue.

The recruiter I worked with was brand new to the company and knew next to nothing about Marvell and struggled to answer my (very basic) questions including salary range for the position, which I assume would have been a no-brainer. I was told next to nothing about the benefits other than there were RSUs available and that if was was given an offer, I would find out what the rest of the benefits would be.

I received no job offer but that was not a problem, as I had already written Marvell off as a no-go on my part. The recruiter did a double take when I quoted my salary at my last position and said flat out there was no way they could match it.

I heard through my contacts with the company that they wouldn't be extending an offer to me. Neither the hiring manager nor the HR recruiter responded to my last emails and voicemails, which I find unprofessional but not unexpected from this company.

Interview Questions

give an example when you fought for a feature to be included in your company's product line

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)

Very unpleasant experience. First I got a phone call from the hiring manager at around 9PM. We discussed my resume. Several days later, I was brought on site, face to face with the hiring manager and an senior guy in the group. We talked about my experience first. He asked many strange questions about my past. Later on, he asked me some technical questions. For 1 questions, I couldn't answer and ask him for feedback. He gave me a wrong solution. I was very disappointed at his manner and knowledge. I wouldn't recommend this company to anybody.