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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

February 5, 2015
Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Received email to schedule phone interview. Scheduled the phone call for the same week. Phone call took about 20 minutes going through resume and answering basic coding concept questions. Got invite for on-site interview 2 weeks later. On-site interview is around 4 hours long starting with explanation of position and then the rest are technical questions. Interviews are 1 on 1, 30 minutes each and targets a different skill.

Questions

Phone interview: Explain inheritance.

On-site: Give expected output given C++ code that uses polymorphism. Find the errors and inefficiencies given C++ code.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different data structures.
Rewrite C code to take advantage of OOP. Explain how you would test for correctness given a goal problem and the code.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 16 interview experiences for the Cadence Design Systems Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

75%
Pass Rate

Cadence Design Systems's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Jose, California is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive75%
Neutral25%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Cadence Design Systems's Software Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.

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