Be aware that Nvidia's interview process is a mess, and what you will be asked is akin to rolling a dice. I have interviewed for multiple teams at Nvidia, so this is a review over multiple interviews with them, from screenings and panel interviews.
First, you will not know when starting the coding interviews if you will get one or two questions. It varies depending on the interviewer. And they will also not tell you if you ask, which makes time management difficult. More importantly, the interviewer may not be familiar with the question they are asking. This means they can't answer questions you may have about edge cases. One interviewer did not know the optimal solution to their own leetcode question and, worse, did not understand the suggested solution, despite explaining every step of the solution, having all test cases pass, and being one of the canonical optimal answers from leetcode. Moreover, interviewers will actively try to mislead you and ask trap questions, especially while you are writing your solution. They will try to lead you away from a working solution, maybe to see if you stand your ground or not. Often, interviewers will expect you to find a solution exactly the way they'd implement it. If you come up with a solution, they may make you change it so it looks more like what they'd write, even if time and space complexities are the same.
However, the most shocking thing is that during this process, Nvidia's recruiters were the first ever from any company I interviewed for to insult me, telling me that I'm barely qualified for the job (Why did you make me go through the panels then? To tell me that?). Then they went over my education and 10+ years of experience. Whatever level of education you have, they will complain you don't have better, or say they wanted just one more year of experience, disregarding whatever was in the job posting. So be mentally prepared for that "interview".
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Time and space complexity for all coding questions
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Austin, TX) in Jan 2025
Interview
I went through 3 rounds, and all of my interviewers were very sweet and friendly. The HR team was also very helpful throughout the process.
All of them were of Medium - Hard difficulty. They really grill you on your past projects and experience, which was great.
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A common question in all interviews was about my previous internship experience in which I did PCB design and bringup. Starting from that, they asked me everything I did in that project as well as a lot of extra theory to test how much I knew about the field.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in May 2025
Interview
Awful experience - truly unprofessional.
Had applied through a referral, after 3 (!) months they came back. passed through an HR screening and a technical interview and was invited to an onsite hiring panel.
Even before the panel - they couldn't answer any of my questions (even simple as - who is the hiring manager for that position?). they were super un-organized.
the onsite was also very not organized (changed 2/5 interviewers without notice). and I didn't even come to the best part:
they **completely ghosted me**. yes, for a director-level role. and yes - after a final onsite panel. not a single word from them (it's been 2 months past the onsite)
Completely ridiculous. don't ever go to interview for the SPT (system product team).
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Totally irrelevant, questions were scattered but that's not the point