Nvidia Software Developer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing: Morning
How was the environment? It happened in the Computer Lab of my institution
All students were assigned a computer and we had to solve questions on hackerrank

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Order of People Heights Problem Statement
Consider 'N' individuals numbered from 0 to N-1 standing in a queue. You are provided with two arrays: Height and Infront, each consisting of 'N' non-negative int...read more
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The task is to find the actual order of people in a queue based on their heights and the number of taller people in front of them.
• Iterate through the given arrays and create a list of tuples containing the height and number of taller people for each person.

• Sort the list of tuples in descending order of height and ascending order of the number of taller people.

• Create an empty result list and insert each tuple into the r...read more
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Round was a mix of concepts from OOPS, OS and Problem Solving

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Binary Search Tree Value Finder
Given a Binary Search Tree (BST) and a key value 'X', determine if there exists a node within the BST containing the value 'X'.
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The task is to find if a given value is present in a Binary Search Tree (BST).
• Start from the root node and compare the value with the target value.

• If the value matches, return true.

• If the target value is less than the current node value, move to the left child.

• If the target value is greater than the current node value, move to the right child.

• Repeat the process until a match is found or a leaf node is reached.

• If a leaf...read more
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Technical Interview round with questions on OOPS and OS mainly.

Q1. What are Little Endian and Big Endian in the context of computer architecture?
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Little and big endian are two ways of storing multibyte data-types ( int, float, etc). In little endian machines, last byte of binary representation of the multibyte data-type is stored first. On the other hand, in big endian machines, first byte of binary representation of the multibyte data-type is stored first.
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Q2. Write a program to determine if your system is little-endian or big-endian.
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#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	if constexpr (endian::native == endian::big)
		cout << "big-endian";
	else if constexpr (endian::native == endian::little)
		cout << "little-endian";
	else
		cout << "mixed-endian";
}
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Q3. What is the volatile keyword in programming?
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The volatile keyword is intended to prevent the compiler from applying any optimizations on objects that can change in ways that cannot be determined by the compiler. 
Objects declared as volatile are omitted from optimization because their values can be changed by code outside the scope of current code at any time. The system always reads the current value of a volatile object from the memory location rather than ...read more
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Q4. What is the use of a function pointer in C?
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In the C function pointer is used to resolve the run time-binding. A function pointer is a pointer that stores the address of the function and invokes the function whenever required.
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Q5. Design a data structure to implement multi-threading.
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If you're doing lots of reads and writes on it, a ConcurrentHashMap is possibly the best choice, if it's mostly reading, a common Map wrapped inside a collection using a ReadWriteLock (since writes would not be common, you'd get faster access and locking only when writing).
Collections.synchronizedMap() is possibly the worst case, since it might just give you a wrapper with all methods synchronized, avoid it at all cost
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Q6. What does a kernel do?
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Kernel acts as a bridge between applications and data processing performed at hardware level using inter-process communication and system calls.
Kernel loads first into memory when an operating system is loaded and remains into memory until operating system is shut down again. It is responsible for various tasks such as disk management, task management, and memory management.
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Q7. What is a storage class in programming?
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Storage Classes are used to describe the features of a variable/function. These features basically include the scope, visibility and life-time which help us to trace the existence of a particular variable during the runtime of a program. To specify the storage class for a variable, the following syntax is to be followed:
Syntax: storage_class var_data_type var_name;
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

HR round with typical behavioral problems.