I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Synopsys in May 2015
Interview
Applied through employee referral. Was contacted by the team to schedule a phone interview. Was also contacted by HR about an hour after the phone interview to decide a tentative start date etc, although HR made it clear that the Manager was yet to make a hiring decision and would decide in a day or two.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview started off by asking me about my experience with Programming, What is the largest code you have written, etc. Questions were mostly software based-was quizzed on many basic software concepts for about an hour and VLSI basics for 10-15 minutes.
C/C++: Imagine you have a program that takes in an integer input and you have to print out each digit using a function that can only print one char-how would you do it.
Usual questions on Arrays, LinkedLists, Vectors, Hash tables-buckets; Identifying unique elements when using buckets. Questions on Trees-balanced, unbalanced trees, worst case complexity, Methods to balance trees:red-black and AVL trees. Questions on Graphs-Adjacency Lists, Adjacency Matrices. The difference between them and which one to use in what context. Questions on enumerated datatypes and typesorting.
Questions about all of the sorting algorithms and which data structures to use to implement each of them, Worst case swap/comparison complexity in each case. Question on how qsort() is implemented in C and how it would sort Records of data.
Questions on malloc, stack and heap. The difference between using malloc and declaring a fixed array. Questions on maps-when to use them, what is their advantage.
VLSI-questions on latches/flipflops; Assign and always statements in verilog. Questions on Static CMOS and its advantages. Questions on the different types of power dissipation and methods to reduce each of them. Questions on Functions/Procedures/Tasks in Verilog.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Synopsys in Jun 2019
Interview
Three rounds of phone interview. Each round focuses on C++ fundamental knowledges from functions, pointers, reference, algorithms, linux, gdb... Also you should get familiar with vim. Only a little bit hardware knowledge like verilog you should prepare.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Synopsys (Mountain View, CA) in Apr 2019
Interview
Two phone interviews. No on-site interview. Referral from Employee. It was an ML related role in New Technologies group. Asked me questions related to my ML projects, general ML interview questions, questions related to data cleaning.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Synopsys
Interview
Referred by a friend. Sent him my resume and then got reply the next day to schedule a time for phone call. Got call from manager of the team later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Difference between array and linked list. Design a function to get the minimum value element of stack in O(1) time. Red-black tree. Find loops in a directed graph. An analytical question.
