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Senior Applications Engineer at Mentor Graphics
Posted Oct 2, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2008 (took 2 days)
Talk to various current employees in the group
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Negotiation Details
Do your home work and apply for current position. Do not expect raise anytime soon after joining.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Director, Product Marketing at Mentor Graphics
Posted Sep 28, 2010
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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 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 2+ months)
Cordial initial contact. Clear job description.
Phone screen, then meet-for-coffee screen, then small-team lunch screens.
Then, grueling multi-day, 6 people/day, 1on1 interviews.
Interrogation on Technical knowledge.
No interest in operational excellence, or matching passion to areas of contribution.
No feedback on presented 100-day plan.
Rather long drawn-out process, with no clear time-frame for a decision.
Stopped process to pursue other opportunities.
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Other interviewers wanted a hands-on tactical person to execute direction from a Sr strategic decision maker, without additional resources.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Software Development Engineer at Mentor Graphics
Posted Jul 2, 2010
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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 Jun 2010 (took 1 week)
Had a phone interview for developer position in tools division .The interviewer was very nasty and aggressive.Decided not to pursue further after the interview itself .The questions were very vague and open ended .
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Mentor Graphics
Posted Jun 6, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2008 in Wilsonville, OR (took a day)
From technology question to behaviors question. Long time interviews. Finally get the offer.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Technical MArketing Engineer at Mentor Graphics
Posted May 27, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2008 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
Since I was already working in Mentor with a different product group. It was an easy migration withing the company. The interview lasted only for about half a day where I was interviewed by my future manager and couple of team members. The questions were mainly to see how my previous experience and education background could fit the new position with a different product.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Staff Software Engineer at Mentor Graphics
Posted Apr 29, 2010
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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 Oct 2009 in Wilsonville, OR (took 2 weeks)
There is not much to say. The interviewer were all professionals. The one thing that caught me by surprise was the online IQ and personalty tests. Make sure your are rested and that you will not get interrupted when you take the test because you are on a clock. In hindsight, I think I might have been to honest with the personality test. It was the first time I was taking one. Next time I will lie a little.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Associate Technical Marketing Engineer at Mentor Graphics
Posted Apr 10, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2009 in Wilsonville, OR (took 6+ weeks)
Initial call through College Fair held 120 days prior. 2 phone rounds apart from initial HR round; one was with Manager and other with Engineer. Questions: C/C++ concepts, RTL Verification, Resume-based. On-site had 7 45-minute rounds with questions on Verilog, Timing, VLSI, C++.
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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, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Associate Technical Marketing Engineer at Mentor Graphics
Posted Feb 17, 2010
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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 Nov 2009 in Portland, OR (took 4 months)
I had about 3 telephone interviews, HR took a lot of time to reply to emails. I had to repeatedly send emails asking for an update. I was called for an onsite interview at Portland OR. Onsite interview was with 8 people one to one. They said I have a good chance. After the onsite interview they took about 2 weeks to respond to an email. They contacted other candidates but not myself. Only after the other candidate accepted the offer they told me that I was not selected.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Application Engineer at Mentor Graphics
Posted Feb 2, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in Portland, OR (took 3 days)
After one phone interview they flew me out to Oregon. I met with around 6 different people. The other two candidates for the job were there on the same day, which was somewhat awkward. The Job didn't seem very interesting and the weather in Portland was terrible, so I wasn't too upset about not getting the offer.
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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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Software Development at Mentor Graphics
Posted Nov 5, 2009
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2008 in San Jose, CA (took 2 days)
Submitted my resume online. Got a call back after two weeks. Did four hours of interviews on site with the team I was applying to. Two days later, I went back for an interview with another team member and VP of R&D. All the interview questions were pretty banal technical stuff, and a couple of brain teasers. Received offer by e-mail the next day.
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Reason for Declining
Low-ball salary.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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