I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Jan 2013
Interview
- I was referred by a current employee.
- Had 2 phone interviews.
- 1 day, 6-person live interviews.
- Phone interview with my boss.
- I thought everything went well. I heard NOTHING back for 5 weeks. Called HR several times. No information one way of the other. Gave up. Told my friend whop referred me (who works for the manager trying to hire me) that I was moving on.
- Got a call from HR 3 days later at 4:48pm on a Friday while driving to Tahoe. He made me an offer and wanted answer right then. AFTER 5 WEEKS! I told him I’d think about it over the weekend. He was annoyed. Called on Monday and accepted the offer. Once that happened HR was extremely responsive and helpful. I still work here (3 years later).
- I have heard from many others (including people I interviewed and we eventually hired) that this is the norm. NVIDIA really needs to get the hiring act together.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was applying for a back-end web server job.
Using the command line, copy all of the lines from a file containing 2,000,000 lines of text from 1 file to another but only for lines that contain the string <<text>>, changing the text <<old text>> to <<new text>> and ordering the new file contents by the <<new text>> and the length of each line.
Now do it using Python.
And this was one of the easy questions.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA
Interview
I had two interviews with the manager and his coworker for the position I was applying for. The questions were very much related to the role. Since it was a python scripting role, I was asked questions about Python and its benefits over other languages. I was also asked a few database questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a critical section? What is the difference between an outer join and an inner join?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Mar 2015
Interview
It was very straightforward and the HR department would give me ample time to be flexible in scheduling. Some of the engineers were hard to understand sometimes but most of that's probably due to phone call being choppy.