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1. Introduction 2. Current CTC expected CTC 3. Why are you leaving Now Technical: How much you rate yourself in C and C++ and Linux 4. Difference between C and C++ 5. What is a virtual function OS concepts 6. Linux booting procedure 7. What is a page table 8. What is virtual memory 9. Are you aware of the UML design pattern?
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Systems Software Engineer

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.4
Jan 18, 2021

1. Introduction 2. Current CTC expected CTC 3. Why are you leaving Now Technical: How much you rate yourself in C and C++ and Linux 4. Difference between C and C++ 5. What is a virtual function OS concepts 6. Linux booting procedure 7. What is a page table 8. What is virtual memory 9. Are you aware of the UML design pattern?

Round-2: (technical design) 1. Interviewer showed a board block diagram. Say there are two GPUs on a single graphic card board. Design such a way that one of the GPUs enumerates as VGA device, then detect and enumerate the monitor to SBIOS. 2. Follow up questions on previous questions about GPIO pins, firmware, communication between two GPIOs and SBIOS.
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Systems Software Engineer

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.4
Sep 20, 2025

Round-2: (technical design) 1. Interviewer showed a board block diagram. Say there are two GPUs on a single graphic card board. Design such a way that one of the GPUs enumerates as VGA device, then detect and enumerate the monitor to SBIOS. 2. Follow up questions on previous questions about GPIO pins, firmware, communication between two GPIOs and SBIOS.

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.

I won't spoil the process, however, be prepared for anything. Focus on everything from your personal approach to answers, to algorithmic based questions. Many of the customers are government based, so if you cannot describe technical terms to a layman, this might not be the place for you.
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Software Systems Engineer

Interviewed at MITRE

3.2
Dec 23, 2017

I won't spoil the process, however, be prepared for anything. Focus on everything from your personal approach to answers, to algorithmic based questions. Many of the customers are government based, so if you cannot describe technical terms to a layman, this might not be the place for you.

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