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ASIC Engineer Interview

Apr 11, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at NVIDIA (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2012

Interview

I was contacted by the recruiter at NVIDIA. Interview scheduled was taken by a different person than mentioned in email. Questions were based on resume, setup time, hold time Computer Architecture etc

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Question 1

Asked about Projects from Resume

1 Answer

Question 2

Setup time, hold time?

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Question 3

Clock skew? Good or bad for a circuit with 2 flops and combinational logic in between.

1 Answer

Question 4

Algorithm for finding 2 highest number in given series

1 Answer

Question 5

What are different types of caches? explain

1 Answer

Multimedia Engineer Interview

Apr 8, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Mar 2012

Interview

1) How will you convert RGB to YUV? 2) What is the difference between H.264 and MPEG2 video codec? 3) What are I, P, B frames? 4) What entropy coding is used in H.264?

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Question 1

What is the difference between MPEG2 and H.264?

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ASIC Engineer Interview

Apr 4, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Mar 2012

Interview

Applied through on-campus career fair. Contacted by email from HR for 3 rounds of phone interviews. 2 technical and 1 based on resume and experience. Cleared the last phone screen and invited to on-site interview after. Consist of 5 technical interviews with team members and hiring managers. Team members are nice and knowledgeable.

Interview questions [4]

Question 1

How virtual function works. Virtual destructor. Abstract functions.

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Question 2

Floating point representation and issues.

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Question 3

Sequence detector.

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Question 4

FIFO and Pipeline system.

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ASIC Engineer Interview

Apr 11, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at NVIDIA (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2012

Interview

Interview questions [5]

Question 1

Asked about Projects from Resume

1 Answer

Question 2

Setup time, hold time?

Answer question

Question 3

Clock skew? Good or bad for a circuit with 2 flops and combinational logic in between.

1 Answer

Question 4

Algorithm for finding 2 highest number in given series

1 Answer

Question 5

What are different types of caches? explain

1 Answer

Multimedia Engineer Interview

Apr 8, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Mar 2012

Interview

1) How will you convert RGB to YUV? 2) What is the difference between H.264 and MPEG2 video codec? 3) What are I, P, B frames? 4) What entropy coding is used in H.264?

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

What is the difference between MPEG2 and H.264?

Answer question

ASIC Engineer Interview

Apr 4, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Mar 2012

Interview

Interview questions [4]

Question 1

How virtual function works. Virtual destructor. Abstract functions.

Answer question

Question 2

Floating point representation and issues.

Answer question

Question 3

Sequence detector.

Answer question

Question 4

FIFO and Pipeline system.

Answer question

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