SoC Verification Engineer Interview Experience - Cupertino, California
Process
One telephonic interview.
One full-day interview at Apple, Cupertino.
Five people interviewed for 45 minutes each.
The third person, who was a manager, took me to the cafeteria for lunch.
Interviewers were friendly, and the questions were very technical. Though the position was for NCG, I was interviewed intensely because of my past experience in the field.
Questions
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Few questions on writing constraints for certain scenarios.
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FSM for number divisible by 3.
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UVM subscriber, sequences, TLM ports, and FIFO.
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Write code for random number generation for a given distribution and ranges.
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Byte addressing in an integer memory system.
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Constrain for non-overlapping segment addresses generation.
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Explain any testbench architecture you have worked on.
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Lots of simple questions to test SystemVerilog and OOP concepts.
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