CCadence Design Systems·Software Engineer

Cadence Design Systems Software Engineer interview experience

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San Jose, CAPosted Jul 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had three interview rounds that felt like a mix of familiar topics and suddenly harder steps.

One of the interviews focused on C++ topics, another was a LeetCode-style problem, and the last one delved into algorithms with a particular emphasis on graph algorithms.

What stood out was the pacing: the interviews happened one after another with only a short 5–10 minute break between them, and that made it hard to fully reset. The first segment felt fairly easy, but the next two were noticeably difficult. I didn’t get an offer, and by the end I felt like the hardest rounds were where the evaluation tightened most.

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