Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'agenzia di reclutamento personale. La procedura ha richiesto 3 giorni. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) nel mese di apr 2019
Colloquio
Got this interview opportunity via staffing company . HR phone call for Phone interview availability.
Followed by 30 min technical phone interview from 3 senior engineers at Qualcomm physical design team at San Diego
Interview was more technical focused . Covered aiming concepts of the physical design ..
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
What is negative slack
Does setup and hold occur in a single cycle
Briefly explain place and route flow
How to you efficiently build the clock tree
4 interviewers.
Basics of physical design /cpu architecture/experience based questions/tcl scripting/timing analysis/block closure /techniques/previous wrk exp/ drc analysis related questions/ tool related questions/ example
Based questions “how would you solve this?” Kind of questions
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Explain the challenges involved in previous tapeout
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Qualcomm (San Diego, CA)
Colloquio
Application via Qualcomm careers or referral.
Recruiter may reach out for basic screening:
Your background, tools used (ICC2, PrimeTime, RedHawk, etc.)
Areas of expertise: floorplanning, CTS, routing, STA, DRC, EMIR, etc.
Experience with multi-VDD, ECOs, hierarchical designs, colored flows, etc.
Technical Phone Interviews (1–2 rounds)
Each round typically lasts 45–60 minutes.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Walk me through how you approach floorplanning for a block.
How do you handle placement of macros and standard cells around them?
What considerations go into designing a power grid?
How do you handle multi-VDD domains or level shifters?
What are tie-high and tie-low cells and where are they used?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Qualcomm (Chennai) nel mese di gen 2024
Colloquio
started with intro and ended with thankyou. they asked digital electronics basics/ physical design flow, sta concepts, some questions from signoff stage. second round was directly they given marker and asked me to solve sta related violation.
