I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Austin, TX) in Jan 2017
Interview
A series of phone screens (2) and an onsite interview based on the results of the phone screens. Typical process, HR was quick to respond with scheduling.
The first phone screen covered basic software concepts/questions with a few verification related questions, the interviewer was on time, introduced himself, what his role was within the company and overall seemed organized; asking meaningful, job related questions.
The second phone screen was the polar opposite. The interviewer was just under 10 minutes late, introduced himself, and asked "puzzle" type questions where the rules changed as we progressed. After asking the question, I could hear him typing in the background and at times respond "uh-huh..yeah"....even when I wasn't speaking. Very surprised given the reputation
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linked List traversal, Fibonacci algorithm (basic and recursive), the difference in complexity between the basic and recursive. Relatively straight forward.
Second phone screen: "A person on a stairway needs to get from the bottom of the stairs to the top in the minimum number of steps, no, how possible combinations of steps, no, I don't think I explained that well...what if they took could only take one step forward for every"...really? is this even a real question? somehow the answer was yet again a Fibonacci sequence question.
Next was reversing a singly linked list - oops, you can't use any references (!?), or another linked list..
Frustrating to have gotten the "B" team interviewer
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Feb 2017
Interview
Meet the recruiter at campus career fair. Took more than a month to get the email back. 30 Minutes phone technical interview, ask about details about the projects, data structure, and algorithms. No futher conversation after the phone screen.
I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Sep 2014
Interview
I submitted my resume online without any internal referral. After a few days, I got a phone interview opportunity and an onsite interview after that. It was a very long day of interviewing and it was quite tough. But it was rewarding. The offer process was quite fast and I started in just a couple of weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give me an example of the mistake you have made in the past