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Updated Apr 25, 2025

based on 13 ratings

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29%
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13 interviews

Design Verification Engineer Interview

Jul 28, 2022

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (New Delhi)

Interview

The questions were practical starting with digital question on FSMs , counters, ff, latches etc. Then verilog questions involving codes of blocking and non blocking assignments, questions on delays, regions , fork blocks etc. At last, SV questions were important and covered topics from OOPS, Random constraints and coverage

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Given variable vector should be randomised as unique values but without using a system verilog keyword which is generally used

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Design Verification Engineer Interview

Jan 22, 2022

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems

Interview

4 ROUNDS OF INTERVIEW interview bit difficult, The interview process had basically 3 rounds. First was Technical round and second was also Technical round and the third round was HR round.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

DD,SV, UVM BASICS QUESTIONS ASKED

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Design Verification Engineer Interview

Jul 30, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems

Interview

Basic SV questions with coding. Too many questions on IP. Good interview with manager and one team. 1 phone round and 1 video coding round. Questions about your experience overall

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Write dynamic array, MUX in Verilog

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