I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at NVIDIA (San Jose, CA) in Jul 2015
Interview
All other Interviewers were great.
Unfortunately, the talent acquisition guy was what ruined the dish. His first question in my mail was requiring me to accept offer within 48 hours, otherwise he would move on next candidate. This was not only rude but also was a threat, which shocked me.
He then asked for my salary expectation, then insisted a phone call, although I said I prefer email. In the phone call, he brought up the threat of "... otherwise we will move on to next candidate" twice.
In the phone call, When pushed for expected salary, I asked him to give a range he said there is no range. Instead he drilled me for a number. The whole process with him is like a battle. I feel much more nervous and uncomfortable when talking to him. No interviewer has made me feel so uncomfortable.
He continued to drill to my home address, asked its price, how much sqft, how many bathroom etc, just trying to low ballpark my needed salary in Bay Area.
I think he was going too far. Also he asked me how my current company calculated the promotion bonus amount and I said I don't know, he said its "dubious" and he was "confused" since I'm supposed to know the equation based on which the bonus is calculated out. I was really offended because there is nothing wrong that I didn't care my current bonus formula.
Overall, he has been aggressive and not based on trust or good faith when talking to me from the very beginning. I have such a great experience talking to all the interviewers as well as other HRs; I had such a bad experience talking to this unprofessional salary negotiator that I started to doubt if I like this company, if this company will treat me like he does, if the company's benefit system will be as aggressive and pushy as he does.
If you look at glass door, recruiters is a top dissatisfaction of NVidia and I believe a change on the styles of recruiters like this guy would definitely be a low hang friction to boost NVidias overall score.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If an existing API is going to be deprecated, how I would communicate to our users
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Taipei) in Nov 2013
Interview
This was the Taiwan office so their English was not that great. They called me, a graphics designer, via a recruiting firm asking me for an interview to join their R&D department, so I thought this was related to interaction design. Apparently they were looking for software engineers instead, and even though I did explain myself, they made me go through a programming test nonetheless. I was able to answer some questions, as I do have a background in object oriented programming and had learned some C++ back in college, but of course it's nowhere near a software engineer's knowledge.
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Jan 2015
Interview
4 rounds of interviews. 3 phone interviews and 1 in-person interview will the 3 other people I phone interviewed with. They were all very nice and seemed to be excited about NVIDIA. Interview itself was not difficult, pretty standard questions. I'd make sure you can pull from previous experience quickly. Each phone interview lasted between 20-40 minutes.