Nvidia

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California

December 3, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days.

I had two interview rounds with different interviewers. They mainly asked about the research projects I’ve worked on so far. I chose one of my projects, and they conducted a deep dive by asking detailed follow-up questions. They also shared what they’re currently working on and asked me about my background in GPU architecture and software pipelining.

Questions

What is software pipelining?
What is warp specialization?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 13 interview experiences for the Nvidia Software Engineer (Internship) role in Santa Clara, California.

Success Rate

46%

Pass Rate

Nvidia's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Santa Clara, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive69%

Neutral15%

Negative15%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Nvidia's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in Santa Clara, California.

Nvidia Work Experiences

Be involved in a lot of things

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Santa Clara, California, United States

Pros: - Be able to get involved in a lot of stuff. - Have a lot of freedom to get things done. - Quite a few internal tech talks, learned a lot about different things across teams.

Cons: - There were few docs available, making it hard to onboard with some projects, especially when the original developers left the company. - There was only limited teamwork.

Be involved in a lot of things

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Santa Clara, California, United States

Pros: - Be able to get involved in a lot of stuff. - Have a lot of freedom to get things done. - Quite a few internal tech talks, learned a lot about different things across teams.

Cons: - There were few docs available, making it hard to onboard with some projects, especially when the original developers left the company. - There was only limited teamwork.

Great company to work for

Principal Hardware Engineer • Current Employee

Santa Clara, California, United States

February 21, 2025

Pros: Cutting-edge technology Great people High transparency

Cons: Work-life balance can sometimes be off.

Great company to work for

Principal Hardware Engineer • Current Employee

Santa Clara, California, United States

February 21, 2025

Pros: Cutting-edge technology Great people High transparency

Cons: Work-life balance can sometimes be off.

Best Company ever

Tester • Current Employee

Santa Clara, California, United States

Pros: They make sure you're being taken care of.

Cons: Sudden changes to projects' workloads.

Best Company ever

Tester • Current Employee

Santa Clara, California, United States

Pros: They make sure you're being taken care of.

Cons: Sudden changes to projects' workloads.

Be involved in a lot of things

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Santa Clara, California, United States

Pros: - Be able to get involved in a lot of stuff. - Have a lot of freedom to get things done. - Quite a few internal tech talks, learned a lot about different things across teams.

Cons: - There were few docs available, making it hard to onboard with some projects, especially when the original developers left the company. - There was only limited teamwork.

3.0
Be involved in a lot of things
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Santa Clara, California, United States
August 1, 2013
Pros: - Be able to get involved in a lot of stuff. - Have a lot of freedom to get things done. - Quite a few internal tech talks, learned a lot about different things across teams.
Cons: - There were few docs available, making it hard to onboard with some projects, especially when the original developers left the company. - There was only limited teamwork.

Great company to work for

Principal Hardware Engineer • Current Employee

Santa Clara, California, United States

February 21, 2025

Pros: Cutting-edge technology Great people High transparency

Cons: Work-life balance can sometimes be off.

5.0
Great company to work for
Principal Hardware Engineer • Current Employee
Santa Clara, California, United States
February 21, 2025
Pros: Cutting-edge technology Great people High transparency
Cons: Work-life balance can sometimes be off.

Best Company ever

Tester • Current Employee

Santa Clara, California, United States

Pros: They make sure you're being taken care of.

Cons: Sudden changes to projects' workloads.

5.0
Best Company ever
Tester • Current Employee
Santa Clara, California, United States
June 5, 2023
Pros: They make sure you're being taken care of.
Cons: Sudden changes to projects' workloads.

Nvidia Interview Questions

Last Stone Weight

You're given a pile of stones with different weights. In each turn, you smash the two heaviest stones together, and the goal is to find the weight of the last remaining stone (or zero if no stone remains).

ArraysGreedy AlgorithmsDynamic Programming

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Group Anagrams

Given a list of words, group together all the anagrams. Anagrams are words that contain the same letters rearranged.

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