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Hardware Intern Interview Experience - United States

February 1, 2024
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter reached out to me about three weeks after I applied for this position to schedule an interview with the hiring manager.

The meeting is 30 minutes and takes place over Webex.

The hiring manager I spoke to was extremely nice; he was the Engineering Manager of the team I was interviewing for. This was a logic design position on an FPGA engineering team.

They were looking for someone who knew Verilog. I believe that was a factor in the questions they asked, too.

But good luck!

Questions

Tell me why you want to pursue a career in hardware engineering.

For a D flip-flop, what goes into the sensitivity list?

Do you have experience controlling clock HZ for an FPGA board? How?

What is an asynchronous active-low reset?

Have you made a test bench? What was the test bench for?

What is a register? What registers do you have experience programming?

Binary arithmetic questions: How do you multiply binary numbers, given a blank number, etc.?

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Cisco's interview process for their Hardware Intern roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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