Hi Josh,

Please see the notes and feedback below from my Sr. Recruiter.

I actually had him in for an interview earlier this year. 

He pretty much bombed the interview with R&D. So much so, that we didn’t even bother with the DI. He’s not going to be able to pass an interview with Boutin’s team either. 

Here’ s a sample of the feedback, and his interview behavior. 

He did provide some basic answers on my eye diagram question about what would cause various artifacts and mask failures but it was all the obvious answers.  He wouldn’t go into things like power supply decoupling, drive impedance, etc.

He simply would not answer the questions I asked.  Example:  “Please draw the waveform at this point.â€ and he would not pick up the pen and only gave very vague ramblings that were circular.  

RC response to step input he tried to solve by thinking of it the freq domain and then translating back to time domain… but without any FT rigor and then got the wrong answer which he didn’t even question as being wrong.  This feels like a big lack of basic EE understanding and intuition or the lack of desire to apply it.

RC time constant for 1k and 100pF – refused to do the math as said he needed calculator.  I showed him it was simply a power of 10 problem and after several requests he finally attempted and got wrong answer and was happy with it even though it made no sense in context of problem.