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Updated May 29, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted May 29, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 (took 2 days)
Phone interview was with very knowledgeable manager, took about an hour. Then I was invited for the 1 on 1 interview on site with about 5 members of the team, each interview took 1 hour. Everything scheduled to the minute.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Jul 28, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
Applied for job when in school HR contacted me. Arranged for a phone interview with the hiring manager. He was very polite and asked me to mail him a Cycle in Linked List solution. On site was long and rigorous. About 4 engineers + 1 manager + 1 VP + 1 HR. Most questions were around concurrent systems / race conditions / deadlocks / livelocks / semaphores / Operating systems internals. The newer members asked about bit twiddling hacks (please go through Stanford bit twiddling hacks once you wont regret it :-))
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Turned down initial offer since I had a better offer from elsewhere. Accepted their counter offer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Mar 12, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 2 weeks)
I've applied online and received invitation from HR shortly. They've scheduled first phone interview with senior RnD manager. I was impressed by that person from first minutes of the interview, he seemed to be knowledgeable and experienced manager. We talked about my background, then he asked several basic question , for example atoi C function and counting amount of 1-bits in byte. Then we discussed NVidia-specific product and it's implementation, step-by-step. Knowing OpenGL could help here, but isn't necessary, it seems that graphic-unexperienced engineer can get through it too.
Several days later, second phone interview was scheduled, with software engineer that reports to previous interviewer. He continued to ask me about graphic-specific products and implementation. Short time after beginning I got lost - I was unable to understand which stages are considered to be solved and what is the current problem we are discussing :) For that mess, I can blame myself to be not familiar with graphic world at all. And a little bit, poor call quality :)
Naturally, after second phone interview I got no feedback not from RnD and not from HR.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Jan 17, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 (took a day)
Pure technical interview. Bit manipulation questions. Memory buffer management question. Make sure you know about OS concepts.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted May 17, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in San Jose, CA (took 1 week)
Over the phone, the interviwer asked me questions on boot process, memory management and some flash related stuff.
1:1 interview: There were questions on cache coherency, dead lock, recursion and othe embedded software related stuff. There were some C questions on recursion, how to write neutral endian code etc.
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Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Apr 14, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took a day)
Interviewers were friendly but direct. Technical interview by four different technical leads in four different departments, one after the other. Asked many software design questions probing detailed knowledge of computer graphics and algorithms. Be prepared to answer any aspect of algorithms and solutions. Nvidia is proud of it's interview filters and only makes offers to those that impress all reviewers.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Jan 5, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in Santa Clara, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Two regular phone interviews before the onsite, it went pretty fine and nice, just try to catch your expertise and some your projects they are interested.
Met with many talent people at onsite interview and they were focusing on technical questions instead of random IQ tests which is really good for me
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First job, not much to negotiate, but surprise to get pretty satisfied with what they offered
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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