I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Arm in May 2009
Interview
I got an email regarding a phone interview to which I responded with a proposition to attend a personal one since I feel its always a better impression when to talk in person. I reached on time and was waiting at the counter for the manager. He came up and introduced himself to me. We went to a meeting room where his boss was present as well and asked me to answer questions and explain stuff on the board. He mainly asked questions from my resume which were totally conceptual. It was mainly optimization for logic design, computer architecture and timing analysis. I did get positive responses of good and OK. Though there were times when they had to walk me through to the answer. But it was my first interview hence I am glad to have had the experience.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Arm in Feb 2007
Interview
The interview is fairly straightforward technical one. I was interviews by three people one was the Engineering manager and the other two were high senior engineers. They asked me about my experiences so far and gone through every point I mentioned on my CV. Then I had a C++ small test and some hardware problems to solve. Then we spent another 30 mins discussing SoC design and hardware in detail.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question to solve a problem using lateral thinking.