Microchip Technology Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

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

This one started with a WebEx session because the hiring manager was skeptical about how my background matched what they needed.

Even though the position was for an FPGA role, the first technical conversation leaned into analog and signal processing questions that I wasn’t as focused on. I didn’t do well in those areas, but I still made it through to an onsite.

The onsite lasted about four hours with five people. The first person dug deep into how SERDES internals work, and I found it frustrating because I didn’t have the experience of designing the internals they were asking about—my answers kept getting ignored in favor of forcing me to respond to details I didn’t genuinely know. Another interviewer asked short

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