I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Marvell Technology (Santa Clara, CA) in Aug 2011
Interview
Initial phone screen (2) by hiring manager + junior employee (<3 years out of college).
Manager asks conceptual and higher level questions. Junior employee asks coding questions (dictates a piece of code and asks questions on that (SystemVerilog)
Have to fill out online profile and NDA before going onsite.
Onsite interview start with meeting HR person who collects compensation information and asks questions like why you left each of your previous employers, why you are applying now, what other companies you are talking to, what factors you will use to decide the offer etc. Later met with hiring manager (heads design+verif), 1 design engineer and 2 verif engineers (junior+senior).
Hiring Manager asks high level questions: e.g where will you place coverage collection for stimulus applied to DUT (monitor Vs driver)
Junior verif person asks more coding questions and Behavioural interview (how to deal w/ diffcult person, failures in past etc)
Design engineer asks some Verilog question and how to test a particular design.
I give all of them an A for the interview.
Other Sr Verif engineer was extremely challenged even to speak couple of sentences in English. He just thrust a piece of paper in front of me typed with a couple of questions. They had non standard terminology and despite repeated requests to explain the terms refused to do so. He kept repeating "just read the question and answer it". After some time I figured out what was the question and gave the answer. He claimed the answer was wrong and asked me to try again. After I came back I googled and found that my answer was correct. He could have moved on to additional questions and had a better/larger sample to make a decision, but stuck with the 2 questions throughout the 45 minute interview. This person should have been trained and lacked basic communication/interview skills in English.
Be prepared for coding questions (some code w/ bug in it etc) regardless of how experienced you are.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How will you deal with a difficult design engineer?
I interviewed at Marvell Technology (San Jose, CA)
Interview
Phone interview with an engineer. No questions about my experience or information about the job. He was only interested in the test bench structure at another company. The interview was not very long and felt very awkward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer was interested in a specific test bench structure I worked with at another company.
2 hours interview in the beginning they introduce them selves then the company and the team then ask you to introduce your self and your projects then 2 technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
: first given a block which you can see its interface and what would you check in order to make sure that the component works as it should the component was something like a memory.
second question is a simple leet code question.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Marvell Technology (Bengaluru) in Apr 2024
Interview
This role is for low power verif senior engineer, easy interview screening with project manager asked mostly on resume and previous projects , they don’t even get back to you with an automated email also such a waste of candidate time , don’t ever consider Marvell unlesss you think they gonna really hire someone