I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Aug 2012
Interview
My resume was submitted to HR by a former colleague who works there. I was contacted the next week about several opportunities in several different groups. Initially I was set up to have a phone interview but that was changed to an in-person interview at the Santa Clara site. The interview was with an engineering group manager and we spent close to an hour going over details in my resume. Overall, it was a very pleasant experience. There was a follow-up phone interview with a different engineering manager. This one was pretty similar to the first one (mostly focusing on details in my resume and my past experience). I was contacted after this interview to schedule an on-site technical interview, which was supposed to last approximately 45 minutes. I ended up not going in for the last interview... because I accepted an offer at a different company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There weren't any questions that were difficult or unexpected... Mainly the questions focused on my previous experience and points listed on my resume.
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?