I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at NVIDIA (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2021
Interview
There are two rounds. Each round is 45 minutes, and both of them are technical. For the first round, after I introduced myself, I was asked questions about physical design. For the second round, I was asked questions about the courses I took before.
the interview was in zoom meeting
There were two questions: One about N type and Ptype and the second one was about timing analysis throught logic circuit with setup and hold
Two technical interviews if you pass you got invited to the third interview that will be with HR. If you pass (the two technical and hr interviews) you will receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
i was given a circuit with ff and gates with timing numbers and asked to calculate the tsetup and thold while also improving it and explaining what does it mean exactly. Also they asked about CTS and gave me a verilog code to tell them what it does.
2 OA rounds,(selected for 2nd after the first)
Then got an interview call
Asked about the invertor characteristics and related stuff, how to reduce congestion ( bookish answer did not work) , and question related to Starry with derates
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