What is the hiring process at NVIDIA?

Most candidates will hear a decision within a matter of weeks from their first interview, but the process duration depends on a number of factors. The entire hiring process can take between three to eight weeks.

For full-time roles, you'll typically be asked to participate in a phone screening, followed by virtual or in-person interviews. Processes may differ between teams to best suit their requirements. The interview process for a software engineer, for example, takes three to four weeks on average. The process generally goes as follows:

• Phone screen with recruiter

• Phone screen with hiring manager(s)

• Technical phone interview with an engineer, usually testing the candidate's knowledge of C fundamentals and systems architecture

• On-site interviews, comprised of six technical interview sessions and one HR session (four to five hours)

If you are required to complete a written test, it will generally consist of two major sections: the aptitude or logic test, and the technical test. The technical test contains questions mainly from C, C++, Operating System, Data Structure.

The technical interview includes questions related to algorithms, data structures, and backend knowledge. Commonly asked questions in technical interviews at NVIDIA include:

• What is a Child - Parent Process?

• How do you design a data structure to implement multi-threading?

• What is the booting process of the Linux operating system?

• What is CUDA?

• How do we synchronize threads in CUDA?

• What happens if you kill a parent process?

The HR interview is focused on behavioral questions. The HR representative may have you complete puzzles or answer brainteasers. Commonly asked questions for these interviews include:

• Tell me about yourself.

• Why do you want to work at NVIDIA?

• What do you like most about NVIDIA?

• Where do you see yourself in five years from now?

• What are your strengths and weaknesses?