I applied through university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (San Jose, CA) in Aug 2011
Interview
A position on timing analysis.
Three phone interviews. On-site interview after three phone interviews. Eight on-site interviewers.
Asked questions on fundamental circuit theories (~30%) and coding/complexity analysis (~70%).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question on convergence theory.
A question regarding root-finding algorithm (secant method etc).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Noida) in June 2015
Interview
Applied directly.called for f2f directly. Questions were about c,c++,ds,algo and puzzle.two technical round and one hr round.hr told to update within 10 days but no mail even after 3 weeks!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Puzzle about finding one odd ball out of 8 balls .
Design a text editor.
Link list n tree algo questions.
C++ basic concepts about vtbl vptr
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Pittsburgh, PA) in July 2013
Interview
Interview was very detail oriented about C++ & OOP programming knowledge, 6 hours of interviews, 2 interviewers at a time for 1 hour a piece. Lots of writing code on whiteboards and answering obscure trivia about languages. They were also very interested in past work I had done working with the OpenAccess Database and the SKILL language.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
An unexpected question was: "You and I are playing russian roulette and I load two bullets into a 6 chambered revolver in adjacent chambers. I go first, and nothing happens. Now you can either pull the trigger as is, or spin the chambers for a 'random' chance. What do you do and why?"
