Process
Worst hiring experience I've had with a company.
I initially reached out to a recruiter after seeing a position posted. We got in contact (he was nearly half an hour late) to talk about my background and what I was looking for.
A week later, I had a screening with the hiring manager and team, which went very well. It was a general mix of technical and behavioral questions.
I was told by the hiring manager that he absolutely wanted to move forward, so I would hear back from HR very shortly. He also mentioned he would have my HR contact get back to me with answers to some questions I had asked that he didn't immediately know.
And that's it. It's been a month and a half now, and I've heard nothing. My HR contact has ghosted me, despite a follow-up I sent over a couple of weeks ago.
It's clear they don't take hiring seriously at all and have no problem wasting candidates' time. If you read the other reviews here, you'll find many similar stories.
Very disappointing.
Questions
What do you have to offer NVIDIA?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 151 interview experiences for the Nvidia Software Engineer role in United States.
Success Rate
Nvidia's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Nvidia's Software Engineer interview process in United States.
Nvidia Work Experiences
- 5.0Absolutely Awesome ExperienceSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeDenver, Colorado, United StatesNovember 7, 2024Pros: Jensen is awesome. Couldn't be better.Cons: None. There's nothing to complain about.
- 5.0Great Pay, Great FutureSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeTaipei, Taiwan, TaiwanNovember 8, 2021Pros: Top salary/package. People here are willing to teach and learn from others; the company has a big future. Work-life balanced.Cons: The office is a little old.
- 1.0Bad place for engineersSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSanta Clara, California, United StatesFebruary 13, 2024Pros: - Name and prestige, perhaps.Cons: I am not sure where all these positive reviews about the healthy work-life balance come from, but it was one of the worst places and onboarding experiences I've had in the industry. It's actually quite embarrassing for a company that has been around for a really long time, with an astronomically high market cap, and in the middle of Silicon Valley, to have a really bad engineering culture. There seems to be no value for the whole organization in building a good engineering ecosystem, especially on the software side. There are a lot of upper managers who have been around for a while and are pretty conservative in work culture, imposing servitude on engineers instead of growing them. As for work-life balance, more than half of my team members have been working past 7 PM every day, and the directory keeps spamming the chat almost every day at 11 PM at night. The stand-up process is a mess where there are too many people in the meeting, and no one has any idea about the scope of projects. The PM is clueless and seemed to be assigned the role to chase artificially imposed deadlines. On the compensation side, there is a one-year cliff. So, if you are coming from a lot of FAANG companies, it's pretty much a year of a half-salary pay cut.
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