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Round-3: (technical + DSA) 1. How does GPU communicate with SBIOS saying its ready? Follow up questions on ucode implementation high-level design. 2. How to automate driver code implementation of register definitions, that are provided in HW spec? 3. For multiple SKUs in same generation, how do you implement code? (Answer: use device-id. Define bits of device-id to differentiate features and SKUs) 4. Implement code for checking if a matrix is chess board or not. 5. Given a function SetBits(value, endBit, startBit). Write the function implementation and handle corner cases.
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Systems Software Engineer

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.4★
Sep 20, 2025

Round-3: (technical + DSA) 1. How does GPU communicate with SBIOS saying its ready? Follow up questions on ucode implementation high-level design. 2. How to automate driver code implementation of register definitions, that are provided in HW spec? 3. For multiple SKUs in same generation, how do you implement code? (Answer: use device-id. Define bits of device-id to differentiate features and SKUs) 4. Implement code for checking if a matrix is chess board or not. 5. Given a function SetBits(value, endBit, startBit). Write the function implementation and handle corner cases.

Consider a scenario where multiple processes are accessing a read-only memory. How will it work? Now, the processes are accessing write-able memory. How will it work? What locking mechanism will be used. How does compare and swap work
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Systems Software Developer II

Interviewed at FIS

3.5★
Oct 13, 2015

Consider a scenario where multiple processes are accessing a read-only memory. How will it work? Now, the processes are accessing write-able memory. How will it work? What locking mechanism will be used. How does compare and swap work

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