The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2009
Interview
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.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write and aligned malloc() that gets memory size needed and an alignment mask as its arguements. Write a free() function to go with the aligned malloc that takes only the pointer to the allocated chunk of memory.
Write a macro to which you can pass a name of a structure and a name of one of its fields and get a relative offset of this field within the structure.
Multiple steps, intro, team meet. Two coding sessions. Hard coding interview. Leet code style. Nice people. Took long time to schedule next. Felt that I was appreciated. Remote, people different parts over world.
I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Haifa) in Jun 2026
Interview
Online assessment consisting of 3 data structures and algorithms questions. First question an easy array question. Second was a hard heap question and the third was a medium 2D dynamic programming question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DP problem: You are given several service options. For each option i, bandwidth[i] is the amount of bandwidth required, and request[i] is the number of requests that can be handled using that bandwidth.
Given a maximum bandwidth limit totalBandwidth, choose a subset of the options so that the total bandwidth used does not exceed totalBandwidth, while the total number of handled requests is as large as possible.
Return the maximum number of requests that can be handled.
I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Jun 2026
Interview
I only made it to the screening round, which involves two technical rounds, I was interviewed by a director and a senior engineer. I could not answer the questions, but the interviewers were very professional and patient throughout the whole process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between a const pointer int vs a pointer const int?