Nvidia

Software Intern Interview Experience - United States

August 29, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

30 mins of general operating system questions, about page tables, memory, caches, latency, and kernals. Then 30 mins of a coding problem. Coding problem was about memory alignment in C.

Questions

Difference between L1 and L2 cache.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 10 interview experiences for the Nvidia Software Intern role in United States.

Success Rate

30%

Pass Rate

Nvidia's interview process for their Software Intern roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive70%

Neutral20%

Negative10%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Nvidia's Software Intern interview process in United States.

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