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Senior Manager at Synopsys
Posted Jan 28, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 (took 2 days)
Thorough process. Talked to all levels (peer, subordinate and indirect reports) in addition to HR and Staffing representatives. 1:1 conversations focused on a variety of different areas - domain knowledge, how I would lead a team, personality traits, what-if scenarios and tricky customer situations. I felt like the interviewers had planned the interview very well with each probing a different area of my background and interests.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Release and Build Engineer at Synopsys
Posted Dec 27, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 2 weeks)
Std. process in bay area - 1:1 interview with 4-5 team members on technical q's
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Engineering at Synopsys
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 (took 5 days)
Graph algorithms, probability
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Negotiation Details
Not good ..I didn't have choice
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Synopsys
Posted Sep 21, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jul 2011 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 5 days)
Interviewed in person with about 3 people. One of them was a manager, and 2 engineers. Interview with the engineers went well, but the manager, who also asked me to write programs, didn't quite seem to understand the code. He asked about writing a program to find out the endianess of a machine. When he wasn't sure about the function, he asked "how else can you find out". I said the endianess is also defined in one of the system header files. He then asked "which one?", to which I replied "i don't the exact one, but perhaps machine.h or something like that. A find/grep would take a minute or so." He didn't seem to like the answer, or perhaps wasn't sure himself. In any case, I felt he tried to continue to ask questions just to come to one that I wouldn't be able to answer. He was truly a bad interviewer. The other engineers who were more technical didn't appear to be this way.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Finance at Synopsys
Posted Aug 5, 2011
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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 Jun 2011 (took 2 days)
Senior Financial Analyst role. Had nearly 9 rounds of interview. Various test on skills, basic finance to complex finance skills assessment. The role was a dual- Corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions role. Tested on M&A concepts - finance skills. Equal importance were given in assessing my fit, soft skills and approach to answering questions.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Applications Engineer at Synopsys
Posted Jul 11, 2011
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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 Aug 2009 (took 2 weeks)
Very long interview, had to be technically good.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior CAE II at Synopsys
Posted May 26, 2011
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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 May 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 days)
First I had a phone interview, followed by a 1:1 with the hiring Manager.
Then I was scheduled for an interview with 5 other people - one of whom was a team member, others from Marketing, Engineering etc.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior R&D Engineer at Synopsys
Posted May 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in Hillsboro, OR (took 2 months)
From HR folks to peer engineers and hiring managers, all the people involved were very polite and smart. Got an impression of being well taken care of.
All the interview questions were reasonable and challenging.
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Negotiation Details
Compensation package is very simple. Judging by base salary is enough.
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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 Presentation and a Background Check.
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Engineering at Synopsys
Posted May 11, 2011
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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 Jun 2009 (took 1+ week)
Sometime back i interviewed for a position at a big MNC. I would like
to share my interview with you so that you can know the questions that
interviewer ask these days. Position i was looking for was a Backend
Design Engineer (logic syn, PV etc).
Here are some question which i remember.
1.) Optimize 2 input inverting mux (D1 connected to A, D2 tied low and
Select tied to B)
2.) Solve the following using Boolean logic.
a. O = A + B[(AB+B) + AB’]
3.) Draw circuit for the following logic.
If tag{3:0} == adr(3:0)
Then (
Match = 1
)
Else
(
Match = 0
)
End
4.) What is setup and hold and what factors determine setup and
holdtime calculation for a flop.
5.) What is PV and how does it impact the timing of a chip
6.) What happens to power if voltage drops. Tell me the equation of
static and dyn power.
7.) What is noise and RV and how to fix it
8.) What is spacing and shielding and when to prefer either of two.
9.) What determines the metal pitches for a particular process
technology.
there were more however do not remember now.
will post more once it comes to mind.
The part after STA, FV, CTS would be ASIC Place/ Route.
Few companies would hire specifically for ASIC Place/ Route work.
So, Students should concentrate more on Front-end design part of ASIC
Design. [HDL, testbenches and after some experience students get an
opportunity to do logic synthesis, STA, FV and other front-end tasks.
I think, more new-college-grads are chosen for Front-end design part
of ASIC Design than Back-end.
Once again, dont worry too much about all steps in detail [as a new
college grad]
Remember concepts are important; rattling off specific tool commands
may NOT show your understanding of the tool.
For example,
1] What are various compile strategies?
Which strategy should be used when?
think of all the variables involved, top-down, bottom-up, small-
design, large-design, constraints already defined, tight constraints,
loose constraints, is it a new design OR migration from earlier
design?
I can understand you may NOT be able to think of all the variables
BUT the key here is to "let the interviewer know HOW YOU THINK"
Remember that the interview questions are generic concentrating on
fundamentals.
always ask the questions like why and how that phenomenon happens. If
the phenomenon is happening some particular way, [may be the way you
do NOT want it to happen, then see how to improve that thing ; So,
first you will have to think why it is happening that way and is there
a better way to do it]
Targeting above sentence to VLSI point of view; THINK OF all VLSI
Qns with that approach; area/ speed tradeoff, WHY does textbook say
that critical input should be connected closer to output, 2bit-line
SRAM versus 1 bit-line SRAM tradeoff.
If you can explain it clearly to yourself, any interview will be piece
of cake.
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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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Software at Synopsys
Posted Apr 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 Feb 2011 (took a day)
1.5 hours, describe my phD thesis.
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