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Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Feb 27, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took 4 weeks)
Started with a Phone interview. He asked simple questions and went over my resume.
After the phone interview, I was invited to the santa clara campus, all expense paid. The interview lasted 5.5 hours, and i was interviewed by 8 people, around 45 min each person. all the questions were technical
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create link list.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Feb 20, 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 Feb 2011 (took a day)
I went to their booth at a recruiting event and they gave a paper quiz which consisted of a various types of questions. I remember these two questions: Design a mutex to ensure bounded waiting. Write a function to determine if there's a cycle in a uni-directional graph.
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The interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)
Resume through job fair at university
Did a phone interview so far and asked about my resume and linked list data structure and about c language
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I got the interview through a College or University.
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Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took 1 week)
Got a response within a week after applying online. Was then set up a phone interview, Phone interview was done by a very senior person (with 30+ years in industry), the guy was very cool. He asked mostly from my resume and a few C questions. After that got an onsite interview setup within a week. Had 4 1-1 interviews, 2 in the morning were easy was asked mainly simple c q's and about projects. afternoon interviews were tough , questions like traverse a binary tree without recursion and algorithms.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Jan 12, 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 Sep 2009 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
I was contacted by Nvidia's recruiter. They first scheduled a one-on-one interview, followed by two phone interviews [second gentlemen was calling out of Germany ]. The phone interviews were straightforward with one or two "trick" questions. The one-on-one interview was also straightforward but the gentelmen who I was talking with appeared to be very cocky and somewhat rude. At the end of the interview he went on to comment on my coding skills, which he described as OK for someone with my experience. This is considering that I solved his problem correctly and was invited to do two more phone interviews.
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Software Engineering at NVIDIA
Posted Jan 3, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took a day)
The interviewer had the same tone all the time, so you don't get an impression of well you're doing. The first question was "what do you like to do besides working with computers?". Unbelievably, he was very interested in why I like to study Jazz music. He asked me to compare Jazz to Rock music. Very unexpected.
The interview took one hour and twenty minutes.
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He asked about IDT (interrupt descriptor table) and what the processor does when an exception is triggered.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Oct 16, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 (took a day)
It was first round phone interview, for about one hour. Most were knowledge based questions, which covered c++, os, java, database, network, algorithm. Almost everything I mentioned in resume. You must be familiar for those basic knowledges. For some questions I did not hear clearly, he kindly repeated whenever I asked. But I was very nervious.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted May 12, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 (took 2 days)
Basic C questions asked, interrupt vectors, scheduling, semaphores. Asked if I have device driver experience. A lot of people apply for these jobs, so if you dont answer quickly and precisely then, they do not select you. Prepare Linux OS, Computer architecture, GPU, pipelining aand C well for embedded software engineer positions.
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Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Posted Apr 13, 2010
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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 Nov 2008 in Santa Clara, CA (took 4 weeks)
Sent my resume over internet. Received feedback for a 15 minute phone screen in about one week. They didn't call me actually on that day, but later they asked for a 45 minute technical interview. They sent out onsite interview notice within 3 days. Onsite was a full day I met eight person, 45 minutes each round. Offer was extended within 4 days after onsite.
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Software Engineering at NVIDIA
Posted Feb 26, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took a day)
I was told that I will be having the interview to find out if I can fit into any of their software development teams. The interviewer called from his cubicle and I could hear other people near his cubicle talking during the interview! I was asked to describe my projects and after that I was asked three technical questions. While I was answering the second question, he put the phone on mute! After I finished answering I kept saying "Hello" but nobody answered at the other end for 1-2 min. He asked my interests and told me that he will talk to the hiring managers and get back to me. Also he sent me a programming assignment to be finished over the next 2 days which I was able to implement quite easily. I received a reject mail 2 days after I sent the answer. I really don't know the reason for rejection but if I had to guess then I would say that I did not have enough experience to get a job based on my interests that also aligned with their technology.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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