I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Dolphin Technology (Santa Clara, CA) in Jan 2012
Interview
I was called in for the interview, was notified that it might take 4 hours at the most but completed in 1 hour and a bit more. The HR manager was a lady, asked me to explain any of my favorite projects, I did, then went on to next round, technical round, asked a few questions regarding verilog, write the code for D filpflop and some Vlsi basic stuff.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain about your projects?
Verilog
D_ff
D_latch
Asked to draw a Nand gate schematic?
Convert the nand gate to inverter?
Inverter sizes?
I applied online. I interviewed at Dolphin Technology (San Jose, CA)
Interview
Waste of Time and Money. I had to fly down to interview with this company in a short time period. The interview went well, I answered all the questions correctly and the interviewer were also impressed with me, my projects were tailored for that position. The was was only for 2 hours and I was interviewed by 2 people one hour each. So I get a mail the very next day saying that they have better candidates for the position than me for the interview and they are going ahead with them. I means seriously? If you aren't hiring and aren't sponsoring for the on site interview then please don't waste job aspirants money and time, you don't know how it feels.
I applied online. I interviewed at Dolphin Technology
Interview
Applied online and phone interview was scheduled based on vacancy.
Phone interview questions:
latch v/s FF
blocking/ non blocking
setup n hold
sizing of sram for read and write
inverter sizing, 2 ip nand sizing
why pmos is sized up compared to nmos in an inverter
miller cap effect in inverter
if ip to inverter is 0.5 VDD, what is op value
inverter with a series nmos, what happens and
with inc in temp how a fet behaves
Circuit Design Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Dolphin Technology with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 31.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Circuit Design Engineer roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Dolphin Technology overall takes an average of 10 days.
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