I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Dec 2011
Interview
Applied via one of NVIDIA's research partners (I've sent my CV after my internship with recommendation letter from my mentor). Within 2 weeks they scheduled a phone interview with some manager who was very, very easy going person. I was given a "homework" - a simple assignment in C to do within 2 days. Just after they received my solution my second interview was scheduled (next week). This time I came across an even nicer person, a guy who had his interns last year and got hired after that. I was asked some technical questions, really easy ones and we spoke much about my project (he even ofered some help with that!). I'm so excited I got hired, because guys at NVIDIA seem to be very clever, yet easy going and friendly.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Describe virtual memory (how does it work, what is it for, when to use it and when not)
I was given a short function in C (dictated because we were hanging on a phone):
int foo(int a) {
int result = 0;
while (a >>= 1)
result += 1
return result
}
And my task was to say what's wrong with this function, what's its purpose and what would I write my colleague who submitted it for a code review
A one hour interview with the hiring manager for the Robot Learning Platform team, half of it consisted of presentation of my past projects/discussion about the role and the other half was for coding exercises on pytorch and general robotic concepts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Present to me 3 projects that are relevant and some coding exercise where I had to implement forward and inversed kinematics with pytorch
Normal recruiter screen asking about background, resume and general thinking questions. recruiter was nice and helped with hints along the way. Problem solving was key for the question that was asked
I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Jan 2026
Interview
2 rounds back to back, leet code style coding questions and an FSM implementation, both drawing the model and in verilog. Interviewers were both nice and helpful, felt comfortable to ask questions.
