NVIDIA Interview Questions &amp; Reviews

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Negotiation Details

I took the offer, it is my first engineering job so it is a pretty good pay.

Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2 weeks)

Got a call through career fair. There were two rounds of phone interview 45 mins each. The first interview focused on questions about projects described in the resume and 1 design question.The 2nd round was purely technical. I was asked 4 design questions each with increasing level of difficulty. I was able to answer all the questions although it took me time to figure out the answers. Did not clear the 2nd round. My advice is to practice a lot of digital design problems before giving the interview .

Interview Questions

design a combinational circuit which counts the number of 1s in a 7-bit input .

question on clock gating- for an 8-bit wide register ,what are the different ways in which clock gating can be implemented to reduce overall power

Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)

Interview consists of 3 phone interviews. First one is more of a background check. Talked about resume background. The rest are mostly discussion on basic interview questions. Very technical. Looked at different perspective of the problem and solutions. Overall, it is an interesting experience, the interviewer are nice and know a lot of the technical questions. They invoke discussion on your answers to see your understanding of the materials.

Interview Questions

What is setup/hold time?

Design a state machine for sequence detection.

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 3 days)

First talked about the projects I put in my resume, then ask a question about designing arbiter, but in different requirement.

Interview Questions

Design an arbiter.

Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 1 week)

I had a phone interview with NVIDIA, and they asked me questions related to Linked list and C++.

Interview Questions

How would you reverse a linked list ?

What is virtual function ?

Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 in Santa Clarita, CA (took 3+ weeks)

I had applied online on NVIDIA website. Got a call for initial phone screen. There were 2 phone screens back to back. First interview consisted of asic,vlsi design,digital design,c coding etc. Second phone interview consisted of computer architecture questions. Both of them went for about an hour. Then got a call for onsite. Onsite consisted of 6 back to back interviews. Each went for about 45 minutes. Question were based on computer architecture(cache,pipelining),fsm design(sequence detector) and the verilog code for the same,synthesis questions, a lot of questions on set up time and hold time,circuit design and puzzles.

Interview Questions

design a fsm to detect 1011 and verilog code

what parameters affect cache performance

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Negotiation Details

Didn't want to negotiate since the offer is very attractive

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in San Jose, CA (took a day)

A couple of Basic architecture questions like whats the ad and disad of using large cache and small cache and some digital design question like sequential detector and timing analysis. and one of the managers ask you to design a traffic light, no detailed requirment at first but as you proceed, he will offer you more design details to consider

Interview Questions

whats the ad and disad of using large cache and small cache

Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 2 weeks)

Handed my resume to a college recruiter. Phone interview with a engineer, asked me how to determine if a linked-list is circular. After giving him the answer, and him telling me it was wrong I realized he didn't know the difference between circular linked list, and cyclic linked list (the racing problem). I was put on hold a few times during the process and heard back 3 weeks later from the recruiter saying "Thanks" but I didn't make the cut.

Interview Questions

Detect a cycle in a cyclic linked list.

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Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 4+ weeks)

The interviewers are very nice. They asked questions about data structure, computer systems and some other questions about computer graphics. Even I can not answer some questions correctly, they seems do not care it. They will explain the question and ask some details

Interview Questions

how to know one linked list has a loop