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Round-1: (technical) 1. Questions on serial port, GPIO. How do you debug if display didn't come up at boot. 2. Tell me a challenging issue debug you did. 3. Rotate nibbles in 32-bit integer. E.g: Input: 0xABCD1234, Output: 0x4321DCBA. 4. Given address of a node in a singly linked list, but head pointer not provided. How do you delete this node?
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Systems Software Engineer

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.4
Sep 20, 2025

Round-1: (technical) 1. Questions on serial port, GPIO. How do you debug if display didn't come up at boot. 2. Tell me a challenging issue debug you did. 3. Rotate nibbles in 32-bit integer. E.g: Input: 0xABCD1234, Output: 0x4321DCBA. 4. Given address of a node in a singly linked list, but head pointer not provided. How do you delete this node?

The phone interview was just making sure that I didn't lie on my CV and checking if I really wanted that position, not just working at their company. The on-site interview contained 2 questions that were based on a "client" coming to you with something that he wants done and you doing your best to figure out what he actually wants and coming own with a good solutions. They don't try to grind you, however they might throw small obstacles to see how you can handle them.
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Cloud Systems Developer

Interviewed at Cambridge Consultants

4.2
May 18, 2019

The phone interview was just making sure that I didn't lie on my CV and checking if I really wanted that position, not just working at their company. The on-site interview contained 2 questions that were based on a "client" coming to you with something that he wants done and you doing your best to figure out what he actually wants and coming own with a good solutions. They don't try to grind you, however they might throw small obstacles to see how you can handle them.

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