I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Jun 2011
Interview
As i recall there was an initial phone screen with the hiring manager. This lead to a second phone screen and then I was flown in for a day of on site interviews with 7 people.
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Question 1
Most of the interviews were discussion oriented, past projects and technology used. Positive experience overall.
Some difficult questions thrown in, search algorithms.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Aug 2025
Interview
30min teams interview
Starting with my introduction about my most related experience, which is followed up by very extensive and detailed questions about the technical detail and division of labor
Then a free form 10 min basic coding question for both python and c++
Ending with me asking questions about the position
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What's the division of labor and what's your contribution?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Taipei) in Jan 2024
Interview
First interview with hiring manager, followed by four engineers for technical interviews.
Programming problems included data structures, bit-wise operations, API designing, and CPU optimization techniques. There were LeetCode-style problems but really not too many of them.
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They showed me a relatively simple function, with some resource allocation logic inside, and asked how I would design the function's signature so that a caller would be able to access the allocated resource but leave the release of it to the same callee.
I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Bengaluru)
Interview
MS teams first round, asked few questions on memory management, spin locks, mutex, semaphores, I2C multi master, clock stretching,ARM architecture, privileges, registers, memory protection unit Then taken to the C programming
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Insert node in linked list swap odd and even bits declare pointer to a dynamically allocated 2D array
Senior Systems Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at NVIDIA with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 82% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Systems Software Engineer roles take an average of 27 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 Senior Systems Software Engineer according to 17 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 16%
Background check: 12%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Drug test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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