CCadence Design Systems·Software Engineer

Cadence Design Systems Software Engineer interview experience

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PunePosted May 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a recruiter call where they locked in an interview date for me, then I moved through two telephonic interviews over the following days.

After the first call, I heard back the next day just to schedule the second phone interview, and then right after that they set up my onsite. The timeline felt tight, and I remember thinking I needed to be ready to go deep quickly.

The onsite was a long day, running roughly 10 to 5, and I met separately with design engineering managers one by one. I ended up speaking with a large group—about nine managers—so the conversations felt a bit like successive mini-interviews rather than a single discussion. After that, the following day I got an HR call saying I was selected. I was relieved,

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