Software Intern applicants have rated the interview process at NVIDIA with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Intern roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 17 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at NVIDIA overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at NVIDIA as a Software Intern according to 17 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 26%
One on one interview: 22%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Presentation: 4%
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Recruiter reach out. Applied through referral. Had 1 phone round and in the process for another phone round. Just filling in words because I don’t really have much to say.
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Behavioural and resume. Second round is supposed to be technical.
I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Mar 2025
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Unorganized and unprofessional. The interviewer was in a gym during the interview and constantly pacing back and forth making it exceedingly difficult to concentrate, also minimal technical questions were asked.
30 mins of general operating system questions, about page tables, memory, caches, latency, and kernals. Then 30 mins of a coding problem. Coding problem was about memory alignment in C
It was two 45 minute back-to-back interviews. It was mainly OS concepts. I was tested on a lot of things that I haven't learned in my courses yet. Otherwise, it was a good learning experience.