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Hardware Engineer Interview

Dec 6, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Application

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems

Interview

phone interview with a senior manager..was briefed on some of the technologies that CDS is working on. Later was asked some brief tech questions from circuit design, logic design fundamentals

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

why does one use a header and not a footer for power gating

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Other Hardware Engineer Interview Reviews for Cadence Design Systems

Hardware Engineer Interview

Feb 2, 2022

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais) in Jan 2022

Interview

Interview with 7 people. Topics ranged from all disciplines of Hardware Design flow. Front-end, back-end and DFT. Questions were focused on tool usage, common issues found in my discipline and how I interacted with other teams.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Create a script to obtain nth term separated by "abc" and "xyz" recurring tokens; Describe challenges and approaches to DFT architecture regarding a certain type of chip; Several questions regarding different needs for scan insertion, considering different frequencies in the same chain.

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Hardware Engineer Interview

Feb 3, 2017

Anonymous employee

San Jose, CA

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2015

Interview

Easy, applied online and had one phone interview. Manager just asked me about my qualities I can contribute. Questioned a bit about my resume but that was about it. Very simple and great company to go for. Although much harder to get full time opportunity after

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Asked about things on resume

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