I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Oct 2012
Interview
Campus - job fair. Got an interview call. Lasted 50 minutes. Most of the questions were core systems questions and one coding question at the end. Started from interrupt handlers, to priority inversion to pipe-lining ,etc. Also asked about earlier projects, work experience. Asked synchronization problems like consumer producer and mutexes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you implement semaphores / mutexes in interrupt handlers ? Should we implement mutexes in interrupt handlers ? Can we sleep an interrupt ?
Was asked to write code for a given question. Interviewer disagreed to my solution for a question on doubly linked list [which was correct way of doing it), and never listened.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Whats the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
It was a very good interview experience. They asked a lot about my technical skills, including concepts related to my field, problem-solving ability, and past projects. They also focused on my communication skills, teamwork experience, and how I handle challenges in real-world scenarios.
I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Apr 2026
Interview
It was a really nice experience overall. The interviewer was very friendly, encouraging, and easy to talk to, which helped me feel comfortable and made the whole conversation more positive and productive.