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Updated Jan 5, 2021
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Anonymous Employee in United States
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InterviewI applied through an employee referral The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (United States)
Very approachable interview panel. Efficient process from the Human Resources. Resources are highly experienced and knowledgeable. Some of the panel members were industry luminaries. The panel came fully prepared and the questions were related to my experience and not theirs.
Interview Questions
- What excites you about this role

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Brazil
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InterviewI interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Brazil)
One test surrounding topics relevant to the job, followed by an interview with questions about various topics, including the test. They might ask about hobbies and if you are outside of the united states, part of the interview will be conducted in english.
Interview Questions
- What are some hobbies you have? Have yoou had any experience abroad?
Join the Cadence Design Systems team

Anonymous Interview Candidate in India
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InterviewI applied online. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (India)
There were only 2 easy stages of interview, as this position requirement was 1-3years of experience. 1. Telephonic Interview : Basic of Analog/RF layouts 2. F2F interview : Detail explanation over profile
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- 1. How to solve Antenna + Antenna ratio 2. Shielding 3. Ways to avoid coupling 4. Overview of basics 5. Density issues
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in United States
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InterviewI interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (United States)
They mostly concentrate on your resume , logic design and verilog basics, also touch of systemverilog and uvm if you know . Write SV assertion for a req/ack protocol. Behavioral questions related to personality and team.
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- Dynamic arrays, Casting, Constraints, Assertions

Anonymous Employee in Chennai
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InterviewI applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Chennai) in Dec 2020
There are multiple rounds(3 in my case). Mostly technical. And occasionally behavioral questions. As it is a covid period, interviews are conducted online. I have given it from my home. The questions were mostly on the projects I did and some technical stuff testing your aptitude for coding.
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- Q: Mostly about projects and some basic coding questions

Anonymous Employee in India
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InterviewI applied online. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (India)
All rounds were technical. problem solving questions and coding was asked. after technical it was HR round . the interview process takes 2 weeks . there will be four rounds of interview apart from HR.
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- Basics of vlsi and the coding questions were asked.

Anonymous Interview Candidate in India
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InterviewI applied online. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (India)
It was a webex interview. Interviewee seemed to be a manager Requirement was for C, C++ and Data Structures Algorithm Didn't give much information about what team it will be for. Overall was a learning experience
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- In a class, there's an integer pointer. What will you do so that other developers cannot misuse of that pointer. Find if binary tree was balanced or not. Do it in optimized way Clone a graph

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Israel
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InterviewI interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Israel)
3 technical interviews, an hour each. The interviewers were very nice, and they expected you to succeed without any help. The questions were fare, no need to practice, just to know the basics. I need more words apperntly but i dont have any so i add t
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- Design system of autonomic cars, where the car are in binary tree according to the car id. Write function that returns all the cars that are 100 km from me, in order by their car id

Anonymous Employee in Bangalore
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InterviewI applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Bangalore) in Nov 2020
It was 3 rounds of interview with first being technical based on verilog, CMOS VLSI. Second was screening round for Managerial and the final one was managerial round. Overall a great experience to have been interviewed at Cadence
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- Draw State diagram for sequence generator.

Anonymous Interview Candidate in New Delhi
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InterviewI interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (New Delhi)
Got the offer from Naukri.com after that the hr called me and scheduled an interview on webex. Had an interview with one of the managers. The experience was very bad. The interviewer was more interested in c and C++. Waste of time for java developers.
Interview Questions
- Tell me about your past experiences and whether you studied from private college or government college

Anonymous Employee in India
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InterviewI interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (India)
It was a video conference interview.I got it from my college .It was a one hour interview.It was basically for a Analog Design .It was for IPG team.As it was for intern it was not much difficult.
Interview Questions
- Questions about project of analog.Poles and zeros concept phase margin.