I connected with a senior employee on LinkedIn, and he helped me get an interview with his team. The manager contacted me, asked for my availability, and arranged the interview.

There were six back-to-back online interviews with a 45-minute break.

Round 1: Resume projects (in detail, my role and contribution), basics like CMOS inverter, CMOS NAND gate, current mirror, blocking vs. non-blocking. Explained a design and asked for the Verilog code.

Round 2: Linux, Python regular expressions. I could not answer Linux and Python questions, so the interviewer asked me to explain the logic instead of writing the code.

45-minute break.

Round 3: The interviewer wanted to know how well I was aware of Analog design basics. Virtual interfaces, inertial vs. transport delay, how to debug errors in a simulator, and questions about the tools I mentioned in my resume.

Round 4: Lots of Verilog, digital basics. I was given a black box and asked how I could verify it if it had two submodules, one analog and one digital. Clock gating and how to achieve it, basic building blocks of counters, inertial vs. transport delay, Verilog vs. SystemVerilog.

Round 5: This round was more like a discussion on a verification plan with analog and digital modules.

Round 6: With the manager, behavioral questions: How do you deal with stress? How did you manage people in your previous job? How do you deal with people who always comment? Why do you want to be hired for this role even though you do not have enough skills?