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Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 28, 2013

Interview Details – Two telephonic interviews and then onsite and I remember 7/8 onsite interviews...

Interview Question – distinct number of paths in a grid   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – Not flexible but the offer was the best I get

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No Offer – Reviewed Mar 25, 2013

Interview Details – I just went through the first round phone interview. All technical questions. 1. What's the difference between union and struct in C. 2. how to find a node in a linked list (may have a loop). 3. how to judge if a number is power of 2.

Interview Question – Since it is the first round phone interview, not very difficult   Answer Question

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Software Engineer at NVIDIA

No Offer – Interviewed in Feb 2013 – Reviewed Mar 25, 2013

Interview Details – This is a phone interview and I was asked a simple question of outputing an interger comprised of characters from a string, which has all kinds of characters. This is quite straightforward.

Interview Question – finding the interger from a string which has all kinds of characters.   Answer Question

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Software Engineer at NVIDIA

No Offer – Reviewed Feb 15, 2013

Interview Details – Two rounds of phone interviews with members of the team.

Interview Question – Implement producer/consumer problem.   Answer Question

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Software Engineer at NVIDIA

No Offer – Reviewed Feb 8, 2013

Interview Details – doing paper questions in campus job fair

Interview Question – binary search tree   Answer Question

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Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Feb 2008 – Reviewed Nov 29, 2012

Interview Details – Several phone interviews and then a day of interviews in person with most of the members of the future team.

Interview Question – Tell me ten features of C++ (that are not in C) that have nothing to do with object oriented programming.   View Answer

Negotiation Details – Brief. They met my salary request.

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Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Jul 2011 – Reviewed Aug 31, 2012

Interview Details – Friend works here. asked me to join

Interview Question – all easy technical questions.   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – Told them no. already signed with another company. They came back strong to get me to break my promise to other company.

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Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Sep 2008 – Reviewed Jun 18, 2012

Interview Details – Phone interviews were done by the Software director and Senior Manager. Tested basically on my academic background. On-site interview consisted of a panel of 7 people. Each of them testing me in different areas of my expertise and academic background. you tend to get very tired and come under some pressure.

Interview Question – Explain in mathematical language how sampling works?   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – No, they allowed no negotiations. I would advice to negotiate strongly. Have a couple of other offers in hand before negotiating.

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Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clarita, CA Mar 2012 – Reviewed Apr 23, 2012

Interview Details – It's interesting and the problems are more practical

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No Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Mar 2012 – Reviewed Mar 5, 2012

Interview Details – Interview was scheduled at 11 am Pacific Time, guy was System Engineer with the Tegra Team,
The position mainly was for Software development using C, C++ and Javascript for some basic scripting purpose. Asked basic questions about of my project based on Ad-hoc Networks and then was asked to write a code and some logic based questions

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