I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (San Jose, CA) in Feb 2021
Interview
I applied through an employee referral which I obtained at a college career fair. Cadence reached out to me with an interview within 3 days. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (San Jose) virtually. It was a single interview with the team head that specifically wanted me to come aboard as their intern, so he cared about getting to know me. The interview was scheduled to be 45 minutes long but ended up going for 1.5 hours. Everything was quick and the recruiter was very responsive throughout the experience.
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The offer included an NDA, so won't get into specifics.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Noida) in Mar 2026
Interview
Consisted of online assessment which had three parts - one aptitude and two technical (dsa,ml,perl) followed by in office interview for the shortlisted students.
The in office interview too had one aptitude and one technical paper followed by the final interview
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Question 1
DSA questions like longest common subsequence , stocks buy and sell.
Python basic questions..
I applied online. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Haifa) in Jan 2026
Interview
Easy interview overall, the interviewers were very nice and it did not seem like theywere are trying to fail me but actually to help me pass ( this was the first interview)
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Question 1
Implement a class to manage a Web Browser History of size N. It needs three methods: a constructor to set the size limit, a visit(url/string) function, and a getHistory() function.
The specific constraint was that if you visit a URL that is already in the history, it should be removed from its current position and re-added as the most recent item. If the history exceeds size N, the oldest entry should be evicted. It effectively functions like an LRU (Least Recently Used) Cache.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems (Pittsburgh, PA) in Mar 2023
Interview
Test the DFS and BFS knowledge, such as how to find the shortest path to a target node. No need to compile the code, but need to share your screen into the interviewer. HR ghosting by the way.