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      Senior Product Engineer Interview

      29 Oct 2018
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems in Oct 2018

      Interview

      Applied Online. Was contacted by a recruiter couple of weeks(on a Thursday) after application. Scheduled a phone call with the Hiring Manager and the Senior Director for the next day. Basic technical questions about Resume,Custom Layout, Matching etc. Was scheduled another technical phone call with two more managers after a couple of days (Next week Tuesday). The questions here were more about in dept about my previous work and the projects done in school. Finally, an onsite interview was scheduled(for Thursday) which covered a broad set of topics but simple questions like Basic Diff Amp, Layouts, Digital Design, SRAM Design, EMIR, IR Drop, Multiple Patterning, FinFETS, Latchup, SKILL Coding etc. Was offered the job the next day. Very fast. The entire process of Two Phone screens and On site with the offer took about a week. The interviewers are very friendly and overall it was a very positive experience.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Draw the Diff amp and explain how it works, Draw 4 input NAND gate using only 2 input NAND Gates, Explain Latchup, Explain Multiple Patterning, Draw the Bitcell of SRAM and explain the operation, Best way to search for an element in a sorted array, SKILL code to check if string is Palindrome, What is Electromigration etc
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