There were three rounds, and the first two meetings are done by telephone interview. Firstly they asked about my CV, secondly about my recent project, and thirdly about general Q&A.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the details of the recent paper I previously wrote.
I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Dec 2025
Interview
HR Screening followed by Hiring Manager Interview and then multiple technical rounds. The technical rounds included basic ML questions, culture ML debugging, research presentation, distributed training and more. This was followed by a culture interview which was also pretty technical.
Remote. Good conversation. Talked l lot about research directions and general research process. No coding. 3 in total. No feedback from previous one. Need to have a lot of papers or internship experience.
Asked to introduce myself and my recent projects.
Asked questions while explaining.
What was annoying and discouraging was that the interviewer was busy throughout the whole interview and seemed not interested. He was clicking, typing, and watching other monitors. Felt like not being respected.
Research Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at NVIDIA with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 70% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Research Scientist roles take an average of 37 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at NVIDIA overall takes an average of 25 days.
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Phone interview: 25%
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Presentation: 19%
Skills test: 13%
Other: 6%
Background check: 6%
Drug test: 6%
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