I was referred by a current employee.

I had two phone interviews.

There was one day of live interviews with a six-person panel.

I had a phone interview with my boss.

I thought everything went well. I heard nothing back for five weeks. I called HR several times, but received no information one way or the other. I gave up. I told my friend who referred me (and who works for the manager trying to hire me) that I was moving on.

Three days later, at 4:48 PM on a Friday while I was driving to Tahoe, HR called. He made me an offer and wanted an answer right then, after five weeks! I told him I would think about it over the weekend. He was annoyed. I called on Monday and accepted the offer. Once that happened, HR was extremely responsive and helpful. I still work here, three years later.

I have heard from many others (including people I interviewed with, and whom we eventually hired) that this is the norm. NVIDIA really needs to get the hiring process together.

I was applying for a back-end web server job.

Using the command line, copy all lines from a file containing 2,000,000 lines of text from one file to another, but only for lines that contain the string <<text>>. Change the text <<old text>> to <<new text>> and order the new file's contents by the <<new text>> and the length of each line.

Now, do it using Python.

And this was one of the easy questions.