Cadence India Placement test & selection procedure

Here is a previous placement paper and test selection procedure of Cadence Design:

The selection process is as follows:

Aptitude test :
There are about 100 questions and the time allowed is 25 minutes.
There is no negative marking in the exam.
All the questions are quite easy. There are no tough questions in the aptitude written test.

Cadence Technical Test:
There are a total of 70 questions to be answered in 40 minutes time.
The subjects from which questions are asked are networks, OS - operating systems, RDBMS, C - C programming language, Apps(5 questons).
There are also some electronics engineering subjects based questions.

Cadence Group Discussion or GD Round:
They call a group of 10 students. See the GD guide for help and tips.
10 candidates were selected out of the 22 persons who cleared the technical test.

The technical interview took about 45 minutes. It was quite long.
The HR Interview was also a detailed one. It took another about 45 minutes.
Selection in CSC is not tough, but you should prepare good for the topics in the aptitude and tech written test first. After that you have to be ready for the technical interview. Be prepared about your project and favorite subjects atleast.
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