I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at NVIDIA
Interview
Surprisingly HR responded 2 days after my application. Got a phone call within a week. The position required a UVM expert. The interviewer mainly focused on UVM and verification basics apart from some text book Qs.
Phone Interview Qs (mostly UVM):
1. Describe verification framework of a design
2. Why do you need a Monitor when you can do the same using a Driver
3. How do you connect components, different types of ports
4. What ports would you use in a monitor, scoreboard
4. Difference between define and enum
5. Synchronization/communication b/w processes, give an example
6. What is UVM, and why UVM
7. How to print messages in UVM
8. Associative arrays
9. Virtual interfaces, why do you need them
10. Types of fork join
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Benefits of a monitor: Interviewer had a problem understanding my response.