Deca Technologies·Software Engineer·Hiring Manager Screen
Apr 2026
Hiring manager screen for a Design Engineer role at Deca Technologies, focused almost entirely on IC-packaging tool experience. Pretty direct conversation, they wanted to know exactly which tools you've actually shipped with versus just touched in a class.
- Do you have hands-on experience with Synopsys 3DIC Compiler, and how long would it realistically take you to become productive in it for production work?
- Walk me through your actual experience with Cadence Allegro. What were you using it for and at what scale?
- Have you worked with Siemens Xpedition in a production environment, and how would you distinguish that from just being familiar with it?
- What's your experience with Calibre, and can you give a concrete example of how you used it on a real project?
“This is where you have to be careful not to oversell.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Deca Technologies, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.
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