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      Software Engineer -2 Interview

      6 July 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience

      Other Software Engineer -2 interview reviews for Cadence Design Systems

      Software Engineer 2 Interview

      10 Nov 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Noida
      Declined offer
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems

      Interview

      3 Rounds of interview -> DSA and C++ questions based related to DP, graph, tree and priority queue 2 DSA questions in each round and few C++ questions in 2nd round(output based, OOPs concept).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      DP question, meeting room leetcode
      Answer question
      1
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Noida) in Oct 2023

      Interview

      Long process, revoked the offer, after resignation, worst. No trust, don't go for that. Can be a trap. Fake decency, no respect for candidates. Can ask hld or lld even not required in job

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Dp, graphs, HLD, interviewer expects well known solution answer, no innovation
      Answer question

      Software Engineer 2 Interview

      20 May 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Urbana, IL
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Urbana, IL) in May 2022

      Interview

      I interviewed for the New Grad Software engineer position. First round was an easy/medium leetcode style question. Second (final) round was an interview with 2 engineers, probing C/C++ knowledge and going over resume.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      A knight chess piece is on an MxN board at some starting square. Given another square, create an algorithm to find the number of moves it would take for the knight to get to the square. Analyze time and space complexity of algorithm.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      What do keywords such as static and volatile mean in C/C++, and when do you use them?
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      What is STL? Any experience working with STL?
      1 Answer