Staff ASIC Physical Design Engineer (ASIC PD Engineer) applicants have rated the interview process at NVIDIA with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Staff ASIC Physical Design Engineer (ASIC PD Engineer) roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at NVIDIA overall takes an average of 13 days.
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Oct 2020
Interview
I applied for ASIC PD Engineer position. Because of covid situation hiring process was online.
They sent one written test link of hirepro platform. There were 20 questions and test duration was 1:30 hrs. Questions were mainly from technical domain and few aptitude questions were also there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. what is the max freq of a given circuit.(setup and hold analysis related)
2. one question was related to stuck at fault. we need to find out the input test pattern in order to detect the stuck at fault of given circuit.
3. IN1?A:IN2?B:IN3?C:1'b0 How many 2:1 mux are required to implement this?
4 one question was related to FIFO Depth calculation.
5. In a given circuit to meet timing how many no of re timing flops need to be inserted?(you should be clear with setup analysis)
6. Questions were related to transistor sizing and cache memory hit and miss ratio.
7. One puzzle was also asked of Annual function and van related(don't remember exactly. :p)