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Updated May 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Design Engineer at SandForce
Posted May 8, 2012
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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 May 2012 in Milpitas, CA (took a day)
They asked me about adder: how to deal with the signed adder, how to deal with overflow problem.
State machine design, to fetch a 110 pattern.
Shifter register design.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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CASHIER at SandForce
Posted Apr 11, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Johannesburg (South Africa) (took a day)
Was called in and was asked to answer an IQ test and then had an 1 on 1 interview
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Firmware Developer, Junior at SandForce
Posted Jul 26, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Fremont, CA (took a day)
I'm a new college graduate. They asked me a few questions about my background and resume. Next, told me about their products and where the company is going.
There was a technical coding quiz on a shared Google Doc.
int func(int y) {
int result=0;
while(y) {
y &= y - 1;
result++;
}
return result;
}
-- what does this function do?
--what's another way to write this?
Interview Questions
int result=0;
while(y) {
y &= y - 1;
result++;
}
return result;
}
-- what does this function do?
--what's another way to write this?
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Product Management at SandForce
Posted May 21, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 (took 1 week)
The interviewer sprung a surprise - wanted to check my C coding readiness. Are they hurting so much for coders ?
What ? Why ? Limitations?
unsigned int funct_2(unsigned short a, unsigned short b)
{
unsigned int result = 0;
while (b) {
if (b & 0x1) {
result += a;
}
a <<= 1;
b >>= 1;
}
return result;
}
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Design Engineer at SandForce
Posted Mar 8, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
a few engineers will talk to you in turn for about half day which ends 1:45pm and you are let go to have lunch. questions are sharp and tough.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Design Engineer at SandForce
Posted Jan 13, 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 Dec 2010 in Saratoga, CA (took a day)
The interview was only about 20 min. The person entered the room and asked about my previous experience and explained about the company.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at SandForce
Posted Feb 9, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in Saratoga, CA (took 4 weeks)
The interviewer is late and ill-prepared
I was stood up for the phone interview twice by a manager. I had the feeling that he conducted the interview since he had to and it was not his job. The technical questions asked during the interview have little to do with the job spec requirements.
Companies tend to treat candidates with more care than actual employees, this manager doesn’t have time to conduct a proper interview, he probably won’t have time to give you thorough training and regular feedback once you’re hired.
By the same token, since the interview keeps getting delayed, it usually means the company is undergoing massive changes and the job in the posting might not be the one I’d actually get. Worse, it may be an indication that the ship is sinking, thus making it one of the more alarming signs I don’t want the job.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Hardware Engineer at SandForce
Posted Jun 25, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2009 in Saratoga, CA (took 2 months)
Phone screen by internal recruiter
Long lapse
Phone screen by hiring manager
Traditional technical interview with manager and 3-5 staff
Long lapse
Phone discussion about position with manager
Email of contract for 2 month trial as non-employee consultant at monthly rate
Last-minute difficult heavily technical interview with CTO
The staff and manager interviews were cool, but I thought the interviewers were not very well trained in the process and feedback indicated that they jumped to conclusions about ones suitabiilty for a task without inquiry into that area.
The CTO interview was late at night, the CTO was not at all friendly, obviously very impatient with having to do the interview, and expected on-the-spot answer to a difficult algorithmic problem that should take a couple days at minimum to think through.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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ASIC Verification Engineer at SandForce
Posted Jun 3, 2009
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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 Apr 2009 in Cupertino, CA (took 1+ week)
I had an phone screen that lasted 45 mins or so. The hiring manager asked some technical questions. It was followed by two on-site interviews - the first one was a 2 hour interview with 2 people after which I was called in for a longer 4 hour onsite interview.
All the interviews, except the one with CTO, were not too difficult and the interviewers were nice. The CEO asked some good questions - but he intentionally made them tricky with his bad communication.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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engineer at SandForce
Posted May 6, 2009 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2008 in Saratoga, CA (took 1 week)
Please be as detailed as possible - everything from your initial communications with the company, organization and planning of the interview, number and type of interviews, and any advice you might offer to other interview candidates. Bonus points for your perceptions of the people, office, and work culture.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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