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NVIDIA System Software Engineer interview questions

Updated Apr 23, 2026

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System Software Engineer Interview

Feb 15, 2025

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

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Easy interview

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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at NVIDIA

Interview

Two screens + virtual on site. Screens were resume, theory questions about OS, programming language specific questions for the role, role specific questions, Onsite was 4 rounds, 3 were coding and one was HM.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How to avoid deadlocks? Difference between thread and process?

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Systems Software Engineer Interview

Aug 5, 2024

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Helsinki, Finlandia Meridional)

Interview

Interviewer set the first 45 minute interviewer with "Director" as the hiring manager. The interviewer was friendly and helpful. OS concept related deep technical questions. Coding questions focused on C.

Interview questions [6]

Question 1

explain breakdown of a typical SoC architecture

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Question 2

What happens when an embedded system boots up?

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Question 3

What is in between CPU and GPU? And then followed by explain buses and cache?

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Question 4

Virtual memory, Page table, Page indexing

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Question 5

why is this bad from safety pov: int fd = open("foo.txt", O_RDONLY) buf = malloc(16) read (fd, buf, 16)

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Question 6

how to swap bits for uint8_t in C like 1st and 2nd bit swapped , 3rd and 4th bit swapped, and so on uptill 8th bit // Like 10101100 -> 01011100

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System Software Engineer Interview

May 24, 2024

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA

Interview

1) introduction and go through resume 2) robotics system question (binocular depth estimation) 3) c++ question (smart pointer) 4) one leetcode problem (medium to hard) 5) Q&A with the interviewer

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How to perform binocular depth estimation? What is smart pointer?

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System Software Engineer Interview

Feb 15, 2025

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at NVIDIA

Interview

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How to avoid deadlocks? Difference between thread and process?

Answer question

Systems Software Engineer Interview

Aug 5, 2024

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Helsinki, Finlandia Meridional)

Interview

Interview questions [6]

Question 1

explain breakdown of a typical SoC architecture

Answer question

Question 2

What happens when an embedded system boots up?

Answer question

Question 3

What is in between CPU and GPU? And then followed by explain buses and cache?

Answer question

Question 4

Virtual memory, Page table, Page indexing

Answer question

Question 5

why is this bad from safety pov: int fd = open("foo.txt", O_RDONLY) buf = malloc(16) read (fd, buf, 16)

Answer question

Question 6

how to swap bits for uint8_t in C like 1st and 2nd bit swapped , 3rd and 4th bit swapped, and so on uptill 8th bit // Like 10101100 -> 01011100

1 Answer

System Software Engineer Interview

May 24, 2024

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA

Interview

1) introduction and go through resume 2) robotics system question (binocular depth estimation) 3) c++ question (smart pointer) 4) one leetcode problem (medium to hard) 5) Q&A with the interviewer

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How to perform binocular depth estimation? What is smart pointer?

Answer question

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