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PlacementHardware and VLSI

Built from 2 candidate reports with 3 first-hand accounts, covering 2021-22, 2020-21.

Hiring process

  1. 1

    Resume shortlist

    Resume screening
  2. 2

    Technical interview

    multiplexers · decoders · counters · latches and flip-flops · pipelining and hazards · FIFO

Advice from candidates

4 pieces of advice, in their own words. Names removed.

  • Prepared the following topics: Processor, pipelines, hazards, digital, and Verilog

    preparation · 2020-21

  • Prepare the concepts of ES 203: Digital Systems. It is preferable to cover the concepts of CS 215: Computer Organization and Architechture, but not necessarily required

    preparation · 2021-22

  • Be sure that you know and understand everything about any ‘realted’ projects you did, if any. Having done any project in the domain makes you stand out.

    interview · 2021-22

  • Having some Verilog backing might give confidence during the interview.

    interview · 2021-22

Question patterns reported

The kind of problem, not the problem itself. Our practice questions are written to match these patterns.

  • Technicalriver-crossing boat trips with capacity limit
  • Technicaltwo logic puzzles
  • Technicalminimum cuts to divide a cake equally
  • Technicalrace-style puzzle with horses
  • Technicalfind fastest three out of many by races
  • HRunpainted unit cubes after cutting a painted large cube
  • Technicalbuild one combinational block from another
  • Technicalstage delay and hazard reasoning