Senior Hardware Verification Engineer Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California
Process
The phone interview lasted about an hour.
At the beginning, the interviewer asked me to elaborate on a few accomplishments listed in my resume.
He then asked me what I liked most about my previous job and what my career goals are.
After giving me a chance to ask questions, the interviewer started to ask technical questions.
Questions
Describe a function to check if an integer is a power of 2.
Describe a circuit that implements the following truth table using only NAND gates.
| A | B | OUT |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
There are 5 bowls with 100 candies each. In 4 bowls, all of the candies are 10 grams each. In 1 bowl, all the candies are 9 grams each. Using a digital scale, how can you determine which bowl has the 9-gram candies by using only 1 weighing?
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