I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Jul 2017
Interview
I've applied for this position on their company website. After few days recruiter contacted me and setup 2 telephonic interviews. Then I attended a half day onsite interview at Santa Clara office. All questions are not that hard. They are bitwise and general arrays handling type of questions. During on site interview, I have been interviewed by 5 different people including the manager. Since I've so much experience in similar domain everything went very well except the last interview with the manager. Since all 4 people tested coding and design skills, I'd expect manager is going to do the behavioral test. However, he asked me to code a program which I never heard before. I was able to come up with a solution with few minor bugs. He was very peculiar about fixing those bugs and he expected me to code a perfect solution! After fixing bugs he is not sure what else to ask ! He kept asking me what topics others covered. Finally he asked another question. He had expected I would struggle to answer this for some time. But I quickly came up with a solution then he started suspecting whether I’d know these questions before. And started behaving bit rude to code in a way that he wanted! That moment I understood he is not going to be a pleasant person to work under. I got impatient and asked him to show clearly what he wanted!
Quickly after 2 days I got feedback that this manager rejected me! I kind of guessed this outcome. I’m sure he might not bother to check others feedback and outright rejected me. Anyway, I'm better off not working under him.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find a duplicate number in a given array. The numbers are 1 ... n
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Pune) in Aug 2016
Interview
- Phone screen with HR
- Phone screen with Hiring Manager
if these above 2 steps go well, you would be asked to appear for in person day long interviews -
- In person tech round, design, architecture
- In person people manager discussion round, case studies, how did you handle some challenging situations
- In person project management, product design round
- In person team management, performance management, process knowledge round
- In person technical detailed discussion round, be ready to describe your current product and answer all the design decisions and logic behind those, can dig deeper
- In person HR round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
current product architecture
how would convince the wider senior forum about a business decision that they have already made up their mind on and change the direction with new cost and project roadmap
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA
Interview
Interview was over a couple days, 2-3 people at 45min slots per day. It was all over the phone as people interviewing were spread across many different offices. People seemed super nice and the company really seems like it's growing. I think there's a lot of opportunities here and most of the people interviewing me had been at Nvidia for 5, 7, even 12 years. Seems like they really take care of their employees.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you do a security review for a website?
Tell me about memory corruption bugs.
Explain how memory management works.