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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 29, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at NVIDIA (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2022

      Interview

      45min phone interview over msTeams. The interviewer spent about 30 minutes explaining the position and the team. Then shared a google doc with an algorithm problem and asked me to solve it and write code and/or psuedo code. Seemed pretty unfair to cram in a difficult algorithm problem with ~15 minutes left in the time. Verbally solved it as best as I could. Ended up running out of time. Received email next day saying they passed.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Asked basic questions about experience. Then asked a decently difficult algorithmic question.
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