I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Oct 2020
Interview
I had 3 interviews with NVIDIA. One with a recruiter, one with a manager and one onsite.
All of the interviews went well except the onsite interview, which was possibly the worst interview I've had in my life. The onsite interview consisted of 3 interviews back to back which lasted ~2-3 hours. Here are the reasons why my onsite was terrible-
1. The first interviewer didn't turn his camera on AND he was recorded the call without asking for permission. I notice the call was being recorded at the end of the meeting. He may have been from a different team since he asked a ton of questions unrelated to the role. In short, that call didn't go well and was personally a huge red flag for me.
2. The seconded interviewer didn't show up :/ So I stayed on the call for an hour in an empty room. He didn't send an email/apology, which was another red flag and just unprofessional.
3. Last interviewer was HR and was okay.
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?