CCadence Design Systems·Software Engineer

Cadence Design Systems Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Mar 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process for the physical design role was pretty intense, mostly because it stretched across several back-to-back interview sessions.

I had HR separated out, but after that it turned into a run of technical conversations focused on physical design topics—different interviewers seemed to zoom in on different aspects of the same overall skill set.

Across the technical rounds, I was asked basic questions around digital circuit design and STA concepts. I also got a focused TCL question: I was asked whether I knew basic TCL, and since I did, the interviewer gave me a simple task involving writing something to place instances in a vertical order. That part was practical and hands-on compared to the conceptual

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