I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2010
Interview
Got interviewed by 8 people from FAE/R&D organizations. It went very well and the team was excited about their job and the products they are associated with. Very professional . 2 round of phone interviews each 45mts to 1hr long and then 6 1:1 interviews at company location.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on how to judge whether a floorplan is good or bad....
what are tough technical issues from customers you faced and how did you solve?
what do you do in pre-sales if the feature req by customer is not supported..
lots of qns on pre-sales and deployment. scenarios