Siemens EDA Interview Experience for SDE Internship (On-Campus)

Siemens EDA visited our college in September.

Role: Software intern/Embedded Intern
Location: Bengaluru / Noida for Software and Noida for Embedded
CGPA criteria: 7
No. of Rounds – 2 (Online Assessment and 1 round of online Interview)
Platforms – HackerEarth for Online Assessment and MS Teams for Interview
Difficulty: Easy/ Medium (varied slightly for different people)
M.Tech/B.tech are both eligible.

Online Assessment

Duration: 1 hour
Questions: 25 MCQs and 2 Coding questions
MCQ topics – General Aptitude, Mathematics, Logical Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, C/C++/Java Output questions, 11th/12th level questions based on easy electrical circuits for calculating current, voltage, potential difference, etc.
Coding questions:

• The first one was medium, second one was hard, don’t remember the questions exactly.
• The Round was video and audio proctored and was held from the college auditorium(as per the company’s demand).
• People who solved at least 1 coding question and 20+ MCQs were shortlisted for interviews.
• Around 9 from software and 3 from Embedded profiles were shortlisted.

Interview Round

Duration: 1 hour
There was only one interviewer. After a formal introduction, he started by asking very very simple C++ STL questions and then went a little deep into their implementation, then went on to ask two coding questions.

• Reverse a Linked List
• Right view of a linked list

He also asked about the inner implementation of the Hash map in C++ STL, and also about collisions, time complexity, etc.
Pseudo Codes were also accepted, no constraints or test cases were needed to be passed.

Verdict: Only 2 selected from the Software domain and none from embedded.