Ambarella Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. The process took a week. I interviewed at Ambarella.

Interview

1 hour phone interview.
the interviewer is very nice.
but no hints or feedback for each answer.
wrote several basic verilog questions on a shared white board.
system verilog
applied online, soon received interview email announcement.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took a week. I interviewed at Ambarella (Los Angeles, CA) in February 2017.

Interview

I got contacted by Ambarella HR one week after I submitted my resume at school career fair. I was scheduled to talk with a senior engineer from the ASIC design team. He started with general questions about my resume, went into details of several projects I listed. Then he began to ask technical questions about Verilog basics, bits operation, digital circuits and etc. The question is very basic but covers a lot. The guys who talked to me was very nice and patient that he would guide me through the thinking process when I got stuck at his questions. Although I managed to answered most of his questions, I did't feel I did good enough to get the job.

After my first phone screen, I had not heard from them EVER again. I did not receive any email regarding my application progress nor did I get any rejection letter. Neither did the HR replied to any of my email ever since. Such irrespective attitude toward their applicant reflects their company culture from my personal opinion.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 2+ weeks. I interviewed at Ambarella (Sunnyvale, CA) in March 2016.

Interview

Two step process, 1. Phone interview, easy question 45 minutes.
2. On-site 4 sessions 1 hr each
The interview experience was good, It was paid trip onsite and they took very good care of me.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ambarella.

Interview

I was interviewed for a technical marketing intern position. They were very responsive to my emails and the interview itself was extremely nice. The interviewer was very helpful and the process was very enjoyable.

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Application

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Ambarella (Los Angeles, CA) in January 2015.

Interview

I applied at the career fair of my school, got an email with the in-person interview offer for 1 hour at career center of my school.
Got several quick knowledge questions like "What is a priority queue?" without having to code, and coded 1 C question.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ambarella (Santa Clara, CA) in September 2014.

Interview

Connected via a recruiter who had placed another candidate in the same group. Drove to Santa Clara campus on 3 different days to interview with a total of 5 people (the entire group), plus an internal HR person.
I found the people very friendly and had a good vibe about the company. I breezed through the interviews and found them to be not terribly technically challenging. However, I am a long-time computer architect with detailed hardware modeling experience, and I believe they want a more software-centric person.

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Interview

The interview last 40 min. They asked STA questions. The difference between DFT and Verification. Verilog questions. Design a simple filpflop. Actually, the interview is not difficult. They use whit board as a tool. We talked on phone and write it on the white board. The interviewer is very nice.

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Ambarella in March 2014.

Interview

Phone interview, approximately 1 hour. First the director introduced what his group is doing and asked one of my course project. Then he requested to write Verilog codes, including switching a and b in one clock cycle, explaining blocking and non-blocking, and implementing FSM of a pattern detector.

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Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Ambarella.

Interview

Email my resume online and got an phone interview after several weeks

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Application

I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Ambarella (Santa Clara, CA) in January 2014.

Interview

I applied online. Received an interview call 2 weeks later.
I was informed that the position requires knowledge of computer architecture, digital design and C/C++. I was asked 1 question in each topic. 1 question on cache associativity, 1 question to design a circuit which outputs a pulse when an input flips, 1 question each on virtual functions and recursive functions (Factorial series).
I was informed there would be a follow-up interview, but I was given the offer without the second interview.

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Reasons for Declining

Received a better offer elsewhere.