I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Oct 2009
Interview
Applied for job when in school HR contacted me. Arranged for a phone interview with the hiring manager. He was very polite and asked me to mail him a Cycle in Linked List solution. On site was long and rigorous. About 4 engineers + 1 manager + 1 VP + 1 HR. Most questions were around concurrent systems / race conditions / deadlocks / livelocks / semaphores / Operating systems internals. The newer members asked about bit twiddling hacks (please go through Stanford bit twiddling hacks once you wont regret it :-))
They asked to talk about some projects I worked on and then also asked two leetcode questions. I answered both questions correctly, although the second one I answered more slowly and the code was not organized but the solution was correct.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked to talk about some projects I worked on and then also asked two leetcode questions.
Initial interview
First a brief self-introduction of the team
Then they asked me to tell about a project I did
Then they asked me if I had 5000 applications at the same time, how would I deal with it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a project you built at work.
If it had 5000 concurrent requests, how would you make sure you didn't lose requests?
60 minute technical interview as the first stage instead of a regular screening. Very effective, interviewer was quite professional. Would totally recommend applying, had it as my first big-tech interview
