I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems in May 2016
Interview
There were a total of 3 phone interviews over a period of one month. All the interviews were purely technical. The first interview was mainly for gauging my topics of interest and basic CMOS design questions. The second interview focused heavily on static timing analysis and little bit of place and route. The second interview focused primarily on automatic place and route flow and fundamentals of VLSI design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.What is time borrowing?
2.Automatic place and route flow
3.resolve setup and hold time issues