I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2014
Interview
In my case, very little was done formally, as I was brought in by my former Engineering Director after he changed companies. Actually hiring process handed off to HR for final negations.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Bengaluru) in Feb 2018
Interview
There were 4 rounds of Interview. 1 Telephonic and 3 face to face on skype as I was in Bangalore and folks taking my interview were in Noida office.
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked basic question of C, DS, OS concepts and puzzles.
Questions were basic and good standard. I also felt the people were quite knowledgeable and decent. Overall a very nice experience though i didn't get an offer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Pune) in Mar 2017
Interview
They took two telephonic interviews and then in-person interview, which went whole day 10-5, each design Engineering manager (9 people) took the interview one by one. and then next day I got the HR's call that I am selected. After 1st telephonic interview HR called next day to schedule next telephonic interview, and then after 2nd telephonic, she scheduled onsite interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Understanding of Fixed Point Arithmetic.
Basic DSP questions, e.g. significance of linear phase etc.
Coding questions, write a C code to implement a FIR filter, write a code to count the no. Of set bits in an integer, they also asked me to optimise of the same code, write a C code to draw a circle with one ; in an array full of zeros. Understanding of DSP architectures, questions from my resume. Some quant aptitude questions.
The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
I received a screening call that consisted of only 3 questions. Then I had a phone interview with the hiring manager. A week later I can onsite to be interviewed by 4 people and to talk to the group director.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you calculate the absolute value of the difference of two numbers?