CCadence Design Systems·Software Engineer

Cadence Design Systems Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Mar 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview felt different from the usual coding style.

There weren’t coding tasks, and instead I was given scenario-based design problems that were meant to test how I approached architecture. I had enough time to work through them, but the expectation was that I’d come up with a digital circuit or overall system architecture to solve the prompt.

The questions were tricky and felt deliberate—more about how I think like an architect than whether I could write code. I would describe how I was approaching the problem and how I was translating requirements into a design.

I ended up receiving an offer. Honestly, the hardest part was getting

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