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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California

January 1, 2011
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Got a response within a week after applying online. Was then set up for a phone interview. The phone interview was done by a very senior person (with 30+ years in the industry); the interviewer was very cool. He asked mostly from my resume and a few C questions. After that, I got an onsite interview set up within a week. I had 4 one-on-one interviews. The 2 interviews in the morning were easy; I was asked mainly simple C questions and about my projects. The afternoon interviews were tough, with questions like traversing a binary tree without recursion and algorithms.

Questions

Questions related to RTOS were asked, and I was tasked with writing a solution for the producer-consumer problem.

Bit manipulation questions included:

  • Writing a macro to check if the nth bit was set.
  • Writing a function to count the number of 1s in a variable, and discussing the complexity of the implementation.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 39 interview experiences for the Nvidia Software Engineer role in Santa Clara, California.

Success Rate

31%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive64%
Neutral15%
Negative21%

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

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