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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.

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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.

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Gain of a differential amp.

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How to compensate a two stage amp and find out the 2 poles.

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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 Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

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

phone interview lasted for 30 mins, asked basically architecture questions.
on site interview consists of seven 1:1 interview ranging from programming language like C, PERL and system verilog. Logic questions include timing analysis and logic gates.

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what is the cycle time of this circuit give 2 flops and some combi logic in between

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

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

Met with recruiting co-ordinator, PR Specialist. PR Manager, Director and then Internal Director.
Must have 3.0 minimum grade point average. Everyone including receptionist needs to. My perception was that people were expected to work long hours due to working with Asia.

The people I met with were nice. Marvell hasn't done much marketing historically and are now making a big push marketing/PR-wise.

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What is the difference between a nerd, geek and a xx?

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

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Nov 2008 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2 days)

I was by my friend who works in the company. The interview questions are OK, not too hard. I answered all technical questions pretty good. So the feedback on me were very well. But the process of getting the offer approved was a litlle slow though.

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find the critical timing path in an hand-drawing circuit.

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Other Details

I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed May 2008 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)

I got the interview call after I applied through a contact. The interview was very technical and relevant to work. The individuals were typically quite sharp and asked good questions. They were very polite and no one showed off any attitude. Over all it was a pleasurable experience.

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IQ imbalance and its effect

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Basic DSP questions

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Negotiation Details

There was very limited negotiation. They were more flexible on offering stocks than a higher salary.

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Jan 2008 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2 months)

They called me for phone interview first and we talked about my background and we talked more until they asked me for on site interview, where I taked to seven to eight people, difficult question that I did not expect some of them , buit it was Okm in general, then after a week they gave me a very good offer