ASIC Design Engineer Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California
May 28, 2020
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
Applied online.
Had two rounds of phone interviews, including usual screening and hardware questions.
Had an onsite that included design-based questions, a few coding problems, and some behavioral questions.
Questions
Phone Interviews:
- CMOS basics
- Usual gate/logic using one gate
- Timing related questions
- FIFO depth
- Max in array
- Palindrome
Onsite:
- CDC: A lot on various techniques and improvements from one to another
- Clock MUX logic
- Clock dividers
- FSM
- Timing related questions based on designs above
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 14 interview experiences for the Nvidia ASIC Design Engineer role in Santa Clara, California.
Success Rate
29%
Pass Rate
Nvidia's interview process for their ASIC Design Engineer roles in Santa Clara, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive86%
Neutral14%
Negative0%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Nvidia's ASIC Design Engineer interview process in Santa Clara, California.
Nvidia Work Experiences
3.0
Cool stuff is happening, and mostly everyone knows it.
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Cons: NVIDIA is organized to pinch pennies, be it in the compute infrastructure or in employee compensation. Everybody works very hard, but compensation is subpar for the industry. Benefits (401k matching?) similarly lack.
5.0
Good pay, great work culture
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Pros: Great work culture, supportive environment
Cons: Competition for growth due to a lot of strong and well qualified colleagues
5.0
GOOD PERKs
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Pros: Good food, working environment, work
Cons: Bangalore traffic is too much bad
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