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      Staff Applications Engineer Interview

      10 May 2020
      Anonymous employee
      Mountain View, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Synopsys (Mountain View, CA) in Apr 2016

      Interview

      Interviewed one at a time by 4 applications engineers (technical interviews), the hiring manager (behavioral interview), and HR/recruiter (behavioral interview). Technical questions involve how to debug typical ASIC design issues, and describing ASIC design flows. Knowing the Synopsys tools is not required; if you know another tool set they assume you can learn the Synopsys tools. However if you have only been running push-button CAD flows (without knowing what the design flow is doing under the hood), the interview will be a challenge.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Here's a post-route congestion heat map. What are some things you could do to resolve this congestion?
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      Question 2

      Here's a simple gate-level design. What commands would you use to constrain it?
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      Question 3

      For the same gate-level design, given the following constraints, will it pass STA checks? What are the violations?
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