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Accepted offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied in-person. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Irvine, CA)
Interview
I had phone interviews followed by on-site. On-site I had 8 rounds of technical interviews. Questions from every step in the back-end design flow: floorplanning, placement, cts,STA, SI, physical verification and some scripting questions
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Bengaluru)
Interview
There were 5 rounds : 1. Screening written test 2. Tech round -I 3. Tech round-II 4. Managerial round 5. HR round Difficulty level was intermediate. HR round was on the easier side.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What is setup and hold time? 2. What is clock skew? 3.How do you handle customer disagreements? 4. How to handle technology proliferation on your end?
I applied through other source. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Bengaluru) in Oct 2018
Interview
I had totally 4 rounds of interview.
Two technical interviews by the lead and architect, one managerial bruins by the manager of the team and one HR round by the HR head.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Relevant to the experience and they try to understand more of problem solving approach and skill level of the resource
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Noida) in May 2018
Interview
I was contacted by a consultancy in Delhi, I got my telephonic discussion after 1 week of forwarding my resume. After finishing the telephonic interview I got the call to fix the skype interview as I was located in hyderabad and the opening were in noida location.
I gave the skype interview date after 5 days. There were 2 rounds of skype interview which lasted for around 2 hours. Then on the same day I got the call for HR discussion and they draw the offer within 1 week after hr discussion.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Telephonic interview was about basic PD flow as this opening was for PD A.E. The interviewer asked few basic questions on CTS and few questions on si and crosstalk.
The skype interview was quite good, the interviewers were technically very strong, and questions asked were not straight forward. Most of the questions were on CTS in the end he asked a very nice puzzle to test my reasoning.