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      Physical Design Engineer Interview

      Jan 26, 2014
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Cupertino, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Jan 2014

      Interview

      Got referred through a friend who had Interned there. This was for a recent college grad physical design position. HR rep contacted me and asked for available times, set up interview at the earliest. A senior team member from the team phoned me for the interview and the interview lasted for about 1 hour.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      D FF transmission gate implementation, then gave delays of the jam latch and the TG, asked to tell the setup and hold time.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      6T SRAM working
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Device characteristics, channel length modulation, body effect, why leakage increases as we continue to scale
      1 Answer
      22

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