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IP Design Engineer at Altera
No Offer – Reviewed Mar 13, 2013
Interview Details First was a phone interview where some fairly basic questions were asked, mostly on video processing (what the job was focused on) in hardware. Issues that might be encountered such as bandwidth, optimization of look-up tables for functions (such as sine), etc. Second was a number of face-to-face interviews, covering my motivation and, more importantly, my RTL skills.
Interview Question – Lots of issues dealing with RTL design of FSMs, BRAM, and the like. Also issues on interacting with DRAM. Answer Question
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Device Engineer at Altera
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 24, 2013
Interview Details This was a new grad position. Was referred by a friend. The initial phone interview was 40 minutes and was asked questions on device physics. The interview was scheduled immediately after the phone call. On-site interview- the hiring manager, another manager and a director interviewed. Questions were on CMOS process flow, changing threshold voltages.
Interview Question – Nothing very difficult. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Altera
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON (Canada) Feb 2013 – Reviewed Mar 14, 2013
Interview Details Within one month after only applying, got a email to arrange first round in-personal interview. During interview, meet with two interviewers. Each one gave a test on algorithm.
Interview Question – find a missing element in array B compare to array A. View Answer
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Senior Software Engineer at Altera
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON (Canada) – Reviewed Mar 12, 2013
Interview Details The interview was split into five 30 minute separate 1-on-1 interviews with managers or supervisors from different parts of the company. I was asked mostly technical questions, which ranged from being quite detailed (write some code to implement some algorithm) to being quite broad. There were no trick questions and no trivia questions. Everyone was very polite and nice.
Interview Question – Write code to find the critical path in a graph. View Answer
Negotiation Details – I was asked during the interview about my salary expectations. The offer seemed quite good, so I accepted it without negotiating.
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Advanced Design Engineer at Altera
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 11, 2013
Interview Details 1 phone screen followed by onsite interviews
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Intern at Altera
No Offer – Reviewed Mar 10, 2013
Interview Details The hiring manager was so helpful and the interview was as smooth as it could be
Interview Question – Draw the hardware architecture for priority encoders Answer Question
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Design Engineer at Altera
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON (Canada) Feb 2013 – Reviewed Mar 05, 2013
Interview Details I was contacted by email for an in person interview. The interview was two consecutive sessions and took 1.5 hours in total. They told me that they will notify me for another phone interview and the final on the site interview. The questions were straightforward.
Interview Questions
- The first question was to separate valid words in a string given a dictionary. Answer Question
- The second question was to tell were to hit a bowling ball to maximize the score earned assuming the ball hits k pins and each pin has a score. Answer Question
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Intern at Altera
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Toronto, ON (Canada) Jan 2013 – Reviewed Feb 23, 2013
Interview Details Submitted resume online and got the first interview around one month later. First interview consisted of 2 x 45-min onsite technical interviews involving both software and hardware questions. Got the second interview a week later, which was a group lunch + a short technical interview,.
Interview Questions
- Hardware: How would you generate gray code using hardware? View Answer
- Hardware: Use adders and multipliers to implement the function y = ax^2 + bx + c, input a, b, c, x, output y, then I was asked to implement it with only 1 multiplier and 1 adder Answer Question
- Software: Given an array of integers and integers x and sum, find if the integer (sum - x) is in the array View Answer
- Software: Given a graph, how to find the shortest distance between two points and longest distance between two points? View Answer
- Software: delete items in a singly-linked list, then asked me how to implement a linked list to make it space-efficient Answer Question
Negotiation Details – no negotiation
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FPGA Engineer at Altera
No Offer – Reviewed Feb 21, 2013
Interview Details The interview lasts about an hour. The first half is hardware questions including designing a divider and a efficient grey code counter. The second half is software interview including finding the second large value in a sequence
Interview Question – 1. Design a divider Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Altera
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON (Canada) Oct 2010 – Reviewed Feb 20, 2013
Interview Details Got a call from HR to setup an interview for an intern position. Most of the interview at campus take about 1 hour. This interview lasted for over 4 hours, with six interviewers. Many of the interview questions covered materials on digital electronics
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timing analysis of a circuit
What does this circuit perform
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