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Standard stuff. Went over resume, asked about what I knew about the company and why I wanted to work there. The first interviewer looked like he never interviewed anyone before and read questions off paper and tried to scribble notes down. The second interviewer told me how great she was.
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Hardware Lead

Interviewed at Alere

2.9
Oct 20, 2013

Standard stuff. Went over resume, asked about what I knew about the company and why I wanted to work there. The first interviewer looked like he never interviewed anyone before and read questions off paper and tried to scribble notes down. The second interviewer told me how great she was.

First onsite interview: - Showed me a Stratix Altera FPGA ALM and asked what is it, which manufacturer and which model - Same but with a Xilinx one - Asked me to explain a document regarding some state machine explanation by Altera - Showed me an Altera transceiver schematic and asked me to explain it and detail each block of it - Showed me a general schematic of an FPGA and asked me to define each hard block that was present on it - Showed me a diagram of CVP (Configuration via Protocol) from Altera and asked to explain it
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FPGA/Hardware Engineer

Interviewed at Maxeler Technologies

3.6
Apr 25, 2015

First onsite interview: - Showed me a Stratix Altera FPGA ALM and asked what is it, which manufacturer and which model - Same but with a Xilinx one - Asked me to explain a document regarding some state machine explanation by Altera - Showed me an Altera transceiver schematic and asked me to explain it and detail each block of it - Showed me a general schematic of an FPGA and asked me to define each hard block that was present on it - Showed me a diagram of CVP (Configuration via Protocol) from Altera and asked to explain it

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