I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Feb 2011
Interview
I've applied online and received invitation from HR shortly. They've scheduled first phone interview with senior RnD manager. I was impressed by that person from first minutes of the interview, he seemed to be knowledgeable and experienced manager. We talked about my background, then he asked several basic question , for example atoi C function and counting amount of 1-bits in byte. Then we discussed NVidia-specific product and it's implementation, step-by-step. Knowing OpenGL could help here, but isn't necessary, it seems that graphic-unexperienced engineer can get through it too.
Several days later, second phone interview was scheduled, with software engineer that reports to previous interviewer. He continued to ask me about graphic-specific products and implementation. Short time after beginning I got lost - I was unable to understand which stages are considered to be solved and what is the current problem we are discussing :) For that mess, I can blame myself to be not familiar with graphic world at all. And a little bit, poor call quality :)
Naturally, after second phone interview I got no feedback not from RnD and not from HR.
They asked to talk about some projects I worked on and then also asked two leetcode questions. I answered both questions correctly, although the second one I answered more slowly and the code was not organized but the solution was correct.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked to talk about some projects I worked on and then also asked two leetcode questions.
Initial interview
First a brief self-introduction of the team
Then they asked me to tell about a project I did
Then they asked me if I had 5000 applications at the same time, how would I deal with it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a project you built at work.
If it had 5000 concurrent requests, how would you make sure you didn't lose requests?
60 minute technical interview as the first stage instead of a regular screening. Very effective, interviewer was quite professional. Would totally recommend applying, had it as my first big-tech interview
