Interview process

1. 1

   Hiring manager round

   45–60 min · hiring manager

   Resume-led screen that also samples circuits and behavioral signal

   What they ask

   • Walk through your resume, then a block you designed (~70–80%)
   • Your specific role and responsibilities versus the team's
   • A quick device or op-amp question (~10%)
   • One or two behavioral prompts — ownership, deadlines (~10%)
2. 2

   Circuit design round

   60 min · onsite whiteboard≈35% weight

   Block-level design on the whiteboard

   What they ask

   • Design an amplifier, bandgap, or reference
   • Small-signal gain, bandwidth, and phase margin
   • ADC/DAC or PLL architecture choice and why
   • Feedback, stability, and compensation
3. 3

   Device, layout & noise round

   45–60 min · onsite panel≈25% weight

   Physical robustness

   What they ask

   • MOSFET regions and device physics
   • Matching: common-centroid and dummies
   • Noise budgeting (kT/C, flicker)
   • ESD and reliability
4. 4

   Resume-based round

   45–60 min · onsite panel≈20% weight

   Deep dive on a block you taped out

   What they ask

   • End-to-end walkthrough of a block you owned
   • Measured versus simulated results
   • A silicon issue you root-caused
   • Trade-offs and decisions you made
5. 5

   Behavioral round

   45 min · hiring manager / peer panel≈20% weight

   Silicon ownership and collaboration

   What they ask

   • A tape-out issue you solved
   • Working with layout and systems
   • A deadline you protected
   • Thoughtful questions for the team

How to prepare

• Resume stories: rehearse a block you designed end to end and lead with your own role, not the team's.
• Circuits: derive small-signal gain, bandwidth, and phase margin on a whiteboard.
• Architectures: know one converter and one PLL deeply enough to defend the choice.
• Physical: understand matching (common-centroid, dummies) and noise budgeting.
• Debug: prepare a silicon story — a measured failure you traced to a circuit cause.

Practice these sub-domains

Drill leveled questions for each area of the Analog / Mixed-Signal / RF loop.