Maxim Integrated Analog / Mixed Signal Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

HR got in touch with me about 1 or 2 days after I applied, asking for some basic details. After that, a phone interview was set up. It lasted for an hour. I talked about my research for the first half hour, and the other half hour was spent on a fundamental question about inverting op amps.

First, you'll get a call to set up a technical phone interview. The questions will be pretty straightforward, mostly about RC circuits, basic Opamps, references, and noise analysis. If you do well on the phone interview, they'll call you back to schedule an on-site interview. The on-site is way harder and longer, usually from 9 am to 5 pm with a lunch break. You'll meet with about 6-7 engineers from the team who will grill you on analog circuit design fundamentals. Each chat lasts 45 min to an hour, with questions getting tougher. Make sure you know noise analysis, feedback, Opamp compensation, non-linearity, and mismatch inside out. If you make it through the 7-hour gauntlet and impress them, they'll offer you the job soon after.

I had 5 interviews over 3 weeks with 5 different people. It was a pretty smooth process overall, just took a while. The first one was over the phone, and the rest were technical interviews done over Skype.