Physical Design applicants have rated the interview process at NVIDIA with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Physical Design roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at NVIDIA overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at NVIDIA as a Physical Design according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
Presentation: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Background check: 9%
Drug test: 9%
Skills test: 9%
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Portland, OR) in Aug 2019
Interview
Was a 45 minutes long interview process and the interviewer asked difficult questions and was hard to please easily and required me to keep on elaborating on answers even though I had done enough elaboration on whatever answers I gave.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you resolve routing congestion problems from your design
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA (El Paso, TX) in Dec 2022
Interview
Highly technical interview No behavioral questions, purely technical questions relevant to Physical Design Consisted of 2 1-hr interview sessions with other ASIC-PD engineers at NVIDIA. Included questions in RTL Design in HDLs, STA, Power Integrity, Implementation Flow, and more.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Toughest question asked (in my opinion, as it required creativity and knowledge to answer) was on writing the following function in Verilog: W = .5X + .25Y Where W was an output, and X/Y are inputs. 2. If X/Y where 4 bits each, what is maximum output number possible?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at NVIDIA
Interview
The interview was conducted by video. Technical interview for first round. The interviewer didn't ask any regular interview question but jumped to technical questions directly. The technical part consists of 3 random questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
List 3 things that you are interested in this role the most.
Straight to technical questions, only conceptual no coding. Asked about register - register circuit setup, hold time, clk skew
NMOS PMOS strength and sizing and why
MUX to make NAND
Can't remember the other questions but it was very simple.