I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at NVIDIA
Interview
Surprisingly HR responded 2 days after my application. Got a phone call within a week. The position required a UVM expert. The interviewer mainly focused on UVM and verification basics apart from some text book Qs.
Phone Interview Qs (mostly UVM):
1. Describe verification framework of a design
2. Why do you need a Monitor when you can do the same using a Driver
3. How do you connect components, different types of ports
4. What ports would you use in a monitor, scoreboard
4. Difference between define and enum
5. Synchronization/communication b/w processes, give an example
6. What is UVM, and why UVM
7. How to print messages in UVM
8. Associative arrays
9. Virtual interfaces, why do you need them
10. Types of fork join
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Benefits of a monitor: Interviewer had a problem understanding my response.
It was nice but did not get offer, talked with recruiter 1st and then started techinical rounds, they were well adjusted to the role i was applying to, but required to be prepared well.
I applied through other source. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Taipei) in Oct 2023
Interview
4 technical rounds , 1st round director over all experience about projects and general verification questions, 2nd round manager deep dive into technical wnt around 1hour 45 minutes , 3rd round 2 hours with 2 different sites, principal engineer , senior engineer, 4th round , director and senior engineer,3 hours with 3 interviewers each went one hour all technical questions , process last 6 to 7 weeks , all virtual
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Verification questions about practical examples and real time projects scenarios
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Austin, TX) in Oct 2021
Interview
I applied through referral of a friend. There was a telephonic screening interview followed by 5 virtual video interviews. The whole process took 4 weeks. I got the reply after 1 week of the telephonic interview and 2 weeks after the virtual interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Verify the Round Robin arbiter with priorities.
Find nth maximum number in an array
They gave various designs and asked me how would you verify it. Write the code for the scoreboard. What kind of challenges you will face while verifying the design?
What is polymorphism in SV? Where do you use it?
2 x 2 router verification. In-order and out-of-order.
They asked me to write the constraints for some cases for eg write followed by read on the same address. It looks like a important part of their interview process.