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NVIDIA Physical Design Engineer interview questions

based on 43 ratings - Updated Jun 17, 2026

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Physical Design Engineer Interview

Sep 22, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

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Difficult interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at NVIDIA (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2021

Interview

There are two rounds. Each round is 45 minutes, and both of them are technical. For the first round, after I introduced myself, I was asked questions about physical design. For the second round, I was asked questions about the courses I took before.

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Question 1

What is clock domain crossing?

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Physical Design Engineer Interview

Sep 4, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Mar 2021

Interview

It was over a call and it was for an internship opportunity. I had applied via college career fair. It was a one hour interview. I got a reject in the first round itself

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Question 1

What is Leakage power? What is Short circuit power? Setup and hold violations NMOS and PMOS working

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Physical Design Engineer Interview

Aug 10, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Bengaluru) in Jul 2021

Interview

I applied off-campus through an Employee referral. After that, a written test was conducted consisting of 20 Subjective questions in 1 hour's time. It was the toughest test that I had given for any company. The test had questions related to VLSI, computer architecture, STA, Verilog, Digital Circuits, FIFO buffer. After the test, there were 2 technical interviews of 1 hour each.

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Question 1

What is Set up and hold time? How would you solve set-up time issues? Why do set up time issues occur in a circuit? Theoretical questions based on Setup time were asked to solve. How does setup time vary with respect to the PVT? What does "7nm" in 7 nm technology represent? How would you increase the buffer strength? Theoretical question based on cache and miss rate and virtual memory was asked to solve. What is cross talk? How to prevent it? A puzzle based on Bullet and gun?

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Question 2

Numerical questions based on setup and hold time were asked? Which bulb will glow brighter- series or parallel? Draw the circuit for dividing 8-bit numbers by 5. What are rectifiers? How do Bridge wave rectifiers differ from Full-wave rectifiers? Explain using a diagram. Write C code for identifying repeated numbers in a given sequence using minimum complexity. Draw XOR gate using NAND gate. Draw FSM for divisible by 2 and divisible by 3 numbers.

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Physical Design Engineer Interview

Sep 22, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Difficult interview

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I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at NVIDIA (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2021

Interview

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

What is clock domain crossing?

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Physical Design Engineer Interview

Sep 4, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

Application

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Mar 2021

Interview

It was over a call and it was for an internship opportunity. I had applied via college career fair. It was a one hour interview. I got a reject in the first round itself

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

What is Leakage power? What is Short circuit power? Setup and hold violations NMOS and PMOS working

Answer question

Physical Design Engineer Interview

Aug 10, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Bengaluru) in Jul 2021

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