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The questions were mostly on RTOS and its concepts. Questions ranged from what is a semaphore, difference between semaphore and mutex, how would you design a system where 2 threads are trying to access a shared resource at the same time. FInally i got a dynamic problem - write a program which accepts user data of any type ( it can be a variable, array, structure, pointers etc) and sorts it. I did not know the solution to this question
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Systems Software Engineer

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.4
Mar 18, 2015

The questions were mostly on RTOS and its concepts. Questions ranged from what is a semaphore, difference between semaphore and mutex, how would you design a system where 2 threads are trying to access a shared resource at the same time. FInally i got a dynamic problem - write a program which accepts user data of any type ( it can be a variable, array, structure, pointers etc) and sorts it. I did not know the solution to this question

Written Test: 1. Object question based on Mutex, C puzzles, OS, Data Structures 2. Implement Producer Consumer Problems 3. Calculate the sum of two polynomials F2F: 1. Process Vs Threads 2. Why we need Process if we have Thread 3. What is Scheduler? How does it work? 4. Priority Inversion 5. Set the bits within a given Range 6. Memory allocation 7. Endianness
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Senior Systems Software Engineer

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.4
Jun 14, 2018

Written Test: 1. Object question based on Mutex, C puzzles, OS, Data Structures 2. Implement Producer Consumer Problems 3. Calculate the sum of two polynomials F2F: 1. Process Vs Threads 2. Why we need Process if we have Thread 3. What is Scheduler? How does it work? 4. Priority Inversion 5. Set the bits within a given Range 6. Memory allocation 7. Endianness

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