I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Jun 2016
Interview
Three Calls from Hiring Managers/ Team Leaders
Team Managers had difficulty finding a time slot in the time frame THEY proposed. One call had to be rescheduled just hours before the time to an after hour call in the evening. Interviewers seemed to not have read the resume prior to the call.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What have you done and how does this relate to what you want to work on at Nvidia
Tell us your Machine Learning experience
Explain SIFT
What is the workflow for Structure from Motion
Standard C++ questionss (always the same):
- What is a virtual class
- What is an inline function
- What is a static member variable
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at NVIDIA (San Jose, CA) in May 2016
Interview
After a few calls with the hiring manager, I eventually had a number of phone interviews with other people in the organization - other Solutions Architects, VPs of Sales, and executive staff. Interviews ranged from technical to behavioral but were generally informal.
All interviews were scheduled via a scheduling person I didn't deal with otherwise (but seemed to be involved in HR paperwork and similar functions).
After the interview process, a wrap-up call with the hiring manager took place, followed by a discussion with HR.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a set of components, what would you do with them to build a system? (The question was purposely vague, so it took awhile to eventually narrow down what the interviewer was trying to get.)
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA)
Interview
I set up a time for a phone interview with a coordinator and when that time came around nobody called. I emailed the coordinator as instructed but no response. I didn't hear anything for over a week until I emailed them asking them what was going on and if the position was filled or something.
The coordinator said something along the lines of oh yeah sorry about that we would love to reschedule...so we did. Then an hour before the time of that interview I got a call from the coordinator asking if we could reschedule to the next day. So we rescheduled once again.
When I finally spoke with the interviewer she was incredibly rude. She made so many assumptions about me without knowing anything about me and put me down multiple times. She was ill informed as many things she said were not true even though she had the information right in front of her on my resume.
Honestly after all this I was kind of over it anyways but I really don't think an interviewer has the right to be completely rude to you especially after the company was so unprofessional.
She told me I was not the right fit and that I needed to focus on certain things but I am not really looking to follow in her footsteps so I am good and will find my own way.
One thing I can say is the NVIDIA recruiter was very nice and responsive and helped me every step of the way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why are you looking to change jobs after such a short time?