Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cadence Design Systems with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 66% positive. To compare, the company-average is 77.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 74 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cadence Design Systems overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cadence Design Systems as a Software Engineer according to 74 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 12%
Background check: 9%
Group panel interview: 6%
Drug test: 5%
Personality test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems
Interview
Interviews went well, got to final stage with the CEO and he said they really wanted to hire me. Then I got completely ghosted and haven't heard from them in months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a verification loop for a specific agentic subtask.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Florida Ridge, FL) in Jun 2026
Interview
The interview was great and not hard. It was mostly problem solving and fixing code snippets. Leetcode questions like Rotate image , merge intervals, and Jump Game. They also bring graph/tree traversal questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Haifa) in Nov 2025
Interview
The on-site interview process consisted of two technical rounds focused heavily on core data structures, system design fundamentals. Each session included complex algorithmic questions requiring clean, efficient, and well-structured code
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode style questions, such as Hashmaps, BFS, LinkedLists..