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      Lead Design Engineer Interview

      3 Mar 2023
      Anonymous employee
      New York, NY

      Other Lead Design Engineer interview reviews for Cadence Design Systems

      Lead Design Engineer Interview

      26 Jun 2017
      Anonymous employee
      San Jose, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (New York, NY) in Jul 2022

      Interview

      All questions were quite tricky. All were scenario based design problems. I was given enough time to solve it. Basically you have to come up with a digital circuit or architecture to solve the problem. No coding. Just looking at the way you approach and solve a problem like an architect.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      serial data handshaking across clock domains, data overflow/undeflow management
      Answer question
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (San Jose, CA) in Feb 2017

      Interview

      I applied through LinkedIn, I got my first call/email around last week of Jan-2017 1. Initial screening with HR about the position and JD 2. Followed by two phone Interviews, mainly technical - asked to write some basic kernels, C-programming questions and details about projects on resume 3. Onsite - interview : 5-6 rounds of interview with different team members, each focused on different aspects like DSP hardware, Computer Architecture, Computer Vision etc.,

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Focused on basics of DSP hardware, C-programming, Computer Architecture, Computer Vision Algorithms, basic Linux and other details relevant to projects on resume.
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      Lead Design Engineer Interview

      9 Aug 2016
      Anonymous employee
      San Jose, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2016

      Interview

      I applied online on Linkedin and the HR contacted me the next day itself. I scheduled a phone interview in the next couple of days. The phone interview went well and they called me for a couple of onsite interviews. I was informed that they want me in the team a couple of days after the final onsite. I process was smooth, quick and professional.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      CPU Design questions. Starting from Instruction fetch to Load-store
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