Component Debug Engineer Interview Experience - Boston, Massachusetts
Process
The process took 2 weeks.
It included:
- One phone screen interview
- An onsite interview (Intel Hudson Campus)
The onsite interview consisted of six 1:1 sessions and ran from 9 am to 3 pm.
The interviewers will spend time describing environmental context and will evaluate your problem-solving capability when introduced to new concepts. They are very friendly and will help you arrive at the answer.
Questions
Phone Screen:
- Difference between FF (Flip-Flop) and latch
- Charge sharing in dynamic logic circuits
- Which is faster: PMOS or NMOS, and why?
- Design for a driver on one end and a receiver on the other, separated by a transmission wire (e.g., Pi model)
- Design of an AND gate using NOR gates
- MOSFET characteristics (Saturation, Cut-off)
Onsite:
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Manufacturing Test Environment
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: ATPG-based test content & debug
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Functional Content Development & Validation
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM: Silicon debug & triage
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Technical Q&A
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