The interview process involved 2-hour-long phone interviews followed by a 4.5-hour onsite interview.

The phone interviewers were nice.

Interview questions were challenging, and it would have been a great experience had it not been for some rude interviewers.

One of the interviewers was the rudest person I have ever come across. He started off by insulting the way work is done at my current company (I work for a competitor). He also answered a phone call while I was answering a question, claiming that he answered it then because he was unable to receive the call the day before. Yes, he thought the best time to answer that call was during an interview!

People are smart, but some of them really need to learn interview etiquette and basic courtesy.

Basic pipelining,

C/C++ and Perl coding,

Verilog,

FSMs,

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