At first, it's a phone interview asking some basic questions about RTL design and basic digital circuits.
Then it's a virtual on-site interview including technical questions and behavior questions. Also, the interview had covered some projects I have worked on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic RTL design questions and digital circuits questions.
Interviewer asked a lot of questions on master's projects and job experience for 20 min.
The remaining 40 min were questions on basic digital logic , cdc , rdc , latches, synthesis based, multi cycle path , i/p and o/p delay , power saving, clock gating , gray code counters
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SambaNova in Oct 2021
Interview
Applied online. Recruiter reached out to schedule phone interview with the hiring manager over Google Meet. Interviewer clearly had not read my resume. He disregarded my internship experience and told me I came to engineering "late" (high school), I guess because I wasn't programming in diapers.
The interviewer ended the interview half an hour early, not bothering to do the coding question, as they wanted someone with more experience. That would have been fine, but the way he said it was quite rude, implying that I would be lucky to have him put me forward in the process, and telling me I have no technical depth. I don't think this is a fair characterization of my experience, especially since he didn't ask me any technical questions that would have allowed me to demonstrate my expertise.
Overall, I came away thinking I would not like to work here, and that it would not be an inclusive and positive work environment.
Hardware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at SambaNova with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Hardware Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SambaNova overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at SambaNova as a Hardware Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 43%
Phone interview: 29%
Other: 14%
Presentation: 14%
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