I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Arm (Bengaluru) in Aug 2019
Interview
There will be 3 rounds of interview , interviews are mainly aroound basics of what has been mentioned in the resume.
PnR flow / synthesis concepts must be very strong to crack this interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the different types of synthesis that you have worked on ?
I applied through university. I interviewed at Arm (Bengaluru) in Sept 2024
Interview
It consisted of 2 tech and an HR round. 2 tech rounds were fairly simply with basic Vlsi and digital electronics questions. 2nd round I was asked questions on STA which were also simple. Make sure your basics are clear
I applied online. I interviewed at Arm in Dec 2020
Interview
I applied in the careers of ARM for Graduate physical design role. My resume got shortlisted and I got contacted my HR person of ARM.
There was no written test. They scheduled rounds of interview, as far as I remember I have given total 4 interviews including HR round. Because of covid situation everything was online.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. First and foremost be clear about your project work and internship work because this is the first question which they asked.
2. questions were mostly from my resume and whatever skills I had mentioned.
3. Questions were related to Timing constraints, Cross-talk, how to fix cross talk issues, Timing DRC's and Setup and hold violation.
4. difference between Physically and logically exclusive clocks?
5. What information is there in .lib file and what is a SPEF file and what it contains?
6. what inputs are required to fire STA Run ?
7. If you have worked on any tool like primetime or ICC then you can expect some questions related to commands.
8. some basic UNIX commands like grep, sed and awk related questions and some scripting related questions.
9. latch up issue and body effect , and how it affects and how can we fix up these issues?
10. questions were related to clock gating and power gating.
