I applied online. I interviewed at Cirrus Logic (Austin, TX) in Aug 2019
Interview
2 Phone screens followed by onsite. I found their interview process to be apt and extracts the best out of the candidate. 1 phone screen is more of behavioral and another one is take home project follwed on explanation and other DSP questions
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cirrus Logic (Raleigh, NC) in Feb 2019
Interview
One 45 minutes phone interview which is mostly the basics of the digital design concepts and OOP concepts followed by one and half hour of on-campus interview. It was a panel interview round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions related to projects mentioned on the resume, Constraint questions, Write the verilog code and testbench for the given system
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cirrus Logic (Austin, TX) in Jul 2017
Interview
This is not a place that experienced/senior engineers should look to. They seem to have more work than people to do it and are looking to scale through hiring more bodies than changing how they actually do verification reuse. They rely mostly on external recruiters not only for finding candidates but also as agents throughout the whole process so you're mostly dealing with a distant third party headhunter who knows little about the role, industry, or expectations.
The pre-interview process involved a prescreen call and testbench coding exercise that a candidate does on their own time followed by a technical review call. The onsite interview was not effectively geared towards a Senior person and also involved an on-demand coding activity which was vague and wouldn't reveal much about DV expertise.
Despite initial positive feedback and follow-up calls, the company took over 2 weeks to respond (via their 3rd party head hunter) with disappointing news and absolutely no other feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a constraint expression for an 8-bit value with the same number of 1/0 bits
Design Verification Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cirrus Logic with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 83% positive. To compare, the company-average is 52.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Design Verification Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cirrus Logic overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cirrus Logic as a Design Verification Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 46%
Group panel interview: 23%
Skills test: 8%
Drug test: 8%
Presentation: 8%
One on one interview: 8%
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