I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Synopsys in Aug 2016
Interview
First round phone interview. The recruiter asked some background information and personal preferences. She is very nice. The second round phone interview took about 30 minutes. The manager talked about the future work and ask some questions of my resume and basic C++ questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For the searching the longest path, which one is better: DFS or BFS?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Synopsys
Interview
Standard interview process for like-minded companies: phone screening with basic knowledge and skills as a first filter, then a few interviews in the office about programming languages, algorithms, data structures, plus a couple of interviews with managers about career expectations, including people in Mountain View, which also tested my English level.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Decide whether an XML-like document is well-formed. The format is obviously much simpler, just to see if one can apply the appropriate data structure and come up with a basic algorithm.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Synopsys (Patiala) in May 2016
Interview
Written test consisting C , Digital Electronics and Aptitude - 60 mins approx 36 questions. Enough time to attempt what you know.
2 technical interviews - basic C and Data Structure knowledge required
1 HR interview - long interview because they wanted to confirm that I'll surely join as I had another offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. In depth questions about working of malloc and free.
2. Scope of variables - global, static, extern, local - proper difference and knowledge
3. Middle of link list
4. Last Kth element in link list
5. Height of Binary tree
6. print longest path - which you used to find the height