Nvidia

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

October 1, 2020

Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

One technical interview with a Software Engineer focused on coding and technical AI/ML questions.

This was followed by a screening by a manager, focused more on background, past projects, and interests for future projects.

An offer was received a week after the second interview with the manager.

Questions

The difference between threads and processes.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the Nvidia Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

38%

Pass Rate

Nvidia's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Jose, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive75%

Neutral13%

Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Nvidia's Software Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.

Nvidia Interview Questions

Last Stone Weight

Easy

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

Medium

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.

Linked ListsDynamic Programming

Group Anagrams

Medium

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

ArraysStringsDynamic Programming