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Updated Mar 28, 2023
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Anonymous Employee
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at NXP Semiconductors
Two round of interviews, First is the technical and the next is with the hiring manager. They do not ask much if you are from reputed university. Then you sign the contract for internship.
- Q) What all 7 stages of OSI model

Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at NXP Semiconductors
first round is a one hour phone screening . after two weeks the 2nd round is a 2 hour interview with multiple people asking some fundamental question. Then after two weeks revise the offer.
- what is you hobby after work

Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at NXP Semiconductors
2 phone interviews, first one was a technical 1 with 2 members of the team, they’ve asked questions regarding C and Python, second one was more like a behavioral discussion with the team manager
- Implement memcpy function in C

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at NXP Semiconductors
HR with HM together interview.Both technical and behavior questions mixed together. Asking nothing related on the resume andI didn't get any detailed information about this role. HM seems no interested in interview.only the HR keep asking questions.
- Lots of deep learning and C questions.

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at NXP Semiconductors
They complete interview process within a day and announce the result in evening. If you have good cgpa or project in VLSI domain then you are preferred. They ask only basic questions on Digital electronics and verilog.
- Difference between task and functions. Write a program to swap.

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at NXP Semiconductors
HR will contact you first for arranging the interview with the manager of department. The interview time may not within working hour, for example, my interview time is start from 6.00pm.
- The interview is mainly to understand your personality. They prefer a candidate who have their own transport and willing to OT.

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at NXP Semiconductors
It was quite a smooth process , it started off with a MCQ round to a face-to-face interview and an HR round. The screening process was smooth and the staffs were really very friendly and co-operative.
- They asked me basics to intermediate questions from my BE Studies related to the domain. They questioned mer regarding the project from my BE.

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at NXP Semiconductors in Feb 2023
applied through college placement . only one round was there. 1. Intro 2. about projects 3. palindrome string 4. switch case statements in java 5. OOPs in java 6. prime number 7. right angle triangle pattern using &
- 4. switch case statements in java 5. OOPs in java 6. prime number 7. right angle triangle pattern using &

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Bangalore Rural
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at NXP Semiconductors (Bangalore Rural) in Feb 2023
For Internship: 1) online test consists of aptitude, programming, computer organization, and core analog and digital. 2)They short listed based on written test and interview was 50 minutes 3) Interview was carried out on Microsoft teams
- It start with self introduction Then they ask about my mtech project and asked questions on it.. Mine was fully compensated opamp design and layout.. 1) He asked me to draw circuit diagram of opamp 2) Then he asked about importance of two terminals 3) Transfer function of it and draw the magnitude and phase response 4) About layout techniques like interdigitization and common centroid matching techniques 5) Rc circuits 6) Then they moved to digital .. He asked me to design mod2 counter with d flip flop and verilog code for it 7) few verilog questions 8) questions on sta 9) again they go through analog only.. Questions on layout rc extraction.. Etc Process goes really well interviewer actually helps u a lot

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at NXP Semiconductors
highly skilled ppl are recommended to apply. But interviewers are good and has the ability to give challenging programming questions. It consists of 2 programming questions in any language(python preferred)
- What is the operational use of Amazon S3 bucket?
NXP Semiconductors Interviews FAQs
Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at NXP Semiconductors as 70.3% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.91 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Embedded Software Engineer and Research Scientist rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Product Test Engineer and Software roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at NXP Semiconductors takes an average of 23.99 days when considering 216 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Analysis Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Environmental Health and Safety Intern roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 240 days).
Common stages of the interview process at NXP Semiconductors according to 216 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on One Interview: 21.60%
Phone Interview: 18.68%
Presentation: 14.59%
Group Panel Interview: 12.06%
Skills Test: 9.34%
Drug Test: 8.75%
IQ Intelligence Test: 5.64%
Background Check: 5.64%
Personality Test: 2.72%
Other: 0.97%
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