I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Noida) in Oct 2014
Interview
I applied for Software Engineer (Java Profile) through some job website (naukri). Interview consisted of 2 rounds.
First round was telephonic and took around 45 mins. It was more related to your communication skills and your present job profile and some basic aptitude and technical questions.
Second round was face to face technical interview and took around 1 hour. It was taken by 2 peopele both 10+ exp. Interview was focused on OOPS concepts in C++ and Java.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Telephonic round consist of your job profile questions and some basic aptitude questions like (defective ball problem)
Interview round was also very easy. It consist of some basic OOPS concept question in C++ and Java. Some questions that I remember are related to polymorphism, inheritance, virtual functions and difference b/w Java and C++,advantage/disadvantage of Javascript and last second highest salary query in SQL.