System Design Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at NVIDIA with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for System Design Engineer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at NVIDIA overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at NVIDIA as a System Design Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 40%
Phone interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Personality test: 20%
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I applied in-person. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Taipei) in Mar 2024
Interview
It was a System Design Engineer Interview for the Signal Integrity and Power Integrity role. Questions were from CMOS Circuit design, RLC Circuit design, nmos filter questions, PCB design techniques-size, microvias design question for 80 ohm impedance of PCB
Interview questions [7]
Question 1
Explain in detail NRZ and PAM4 encoding techniques.
I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Feb 2026
Interview
Two hour-long interviews. Both follow the same format: no behavioral questions just technical. Interviewers looked at my resume and asked me to describe a technical project. In the second round, interviewer also drew a circuit and gave a problem to solve. Very fair and doable if you revise analog circuitry content.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a diode? What are the gates of a transistor? Calculate the current going through this resistor (circuit had a transistor and op-amp).
Phone interview with HR first, received some more details about this role. Moved to the next phase which was an online test. Unfortunately, stopped at this stage, didn't go further.