CCadence Design Systems·Software Engineer

Cadence Design Systems Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

SwedenPosted May 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interaction was with an engineer over video, and it began with a quick intro about myself.

After that, the questions felt oddly fragmented—more like a set of random C++ prompts than anything grounded in testing my ability to reason through new problem situations. I spent a lot of time answering questions about C++ and the STL.

Most of the way through, the tone was fairly routine and I felt like I was following along. Then the end caught me off guard: I got told I didn’t know the STL library well enough because I couldn’t recall by heart the specific function name related to setting the capacity on a std::vector. That didn’t line up with how well I’d answered the rest of the

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