CCadence Design Systems·Software Engineer

Cadence Design Systems Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Pittsburgh, PAPosted Apr 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a task that tested how I understood graph traversal—specifically DFS and BFS and how to find the shortest path to a target node.

I didn’t need to compile code, but I did have to share my screen and talk through what I was thinking while I solved it.

After that, there was a noticeable HR gap. The interview itself felt clear about what they wanted, but then I ran into HR ghosting. I never got the kind of closure I expected.

I didn’t get an offer, and the part that stuck with me wasn’t the technical question—it was the absence of communication afterward.

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