I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Altera (Santa Cruz, CA) in Sept 2007
Interview
First, I had a phone screening with an Engineering Manager. He went through my resume, asking questions relating to my previous experience. After elaborating on my experience working in large software projects and using established software practices, he started asking me very simple technical questions.
A few days later, I got an email from HR telling me that the screening went well, and asking me to come for an onsite. Then, I had interviews with two panels of 2 or 3 engineers, asking relevant Software Engineering questions, and your typical coding whiteboarding. Later I had lunch with the hiring manager.
About a week after, I got another email from the Hiring Manager saying that the interviews went well, and asking me to come in for a presentation. I had to come in and give a presentation to a larger set of engineers on any topic I chose.
Finally, after that was done, I was given an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write tree traversals for your own tree data structure
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Altera (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2018
Interview
3 period 1 hour each all technical questions, mainly about coding
1 question about a directed graph and find isolated nodes
1 question about finding optimal with given space and time complexity
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
question about a directed graph and find isolated nodes
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Altera (Toronto, ON) in Apr 2017
Interview
Applied for position, got a call 2 weeks later requesting an interview. 3 separate interviews, 30 mins each with a different manager each time. Questions were algorithm questions with coding in C involved.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find and count duplicate elements between 2 unsorted arrays
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Altera (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2017
Interview
Two interviews with two different software engineers- each 30 minutes long, one question per interview. Questions pretty simple algorithm wise and you have to write the solution on white board or paper. Be careful not to waste time at this stage with question about the company or anything else (including any interaction with the interviewer) otherwise you won't have the time to actually solve the question because you have exactly 30 minutes and not a minute more.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reverse the order of the words in a given sentence