I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at NVIDIA (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2021
Interview
The first interview after the resume screen was a coding interview. I didn't pass this round so don't know what follows it. The interview had two parts, one is a coding exercise and one is a systems design question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer asked me a pytorch coding problem on how to get the sum from a window length of 3 for all elements an np vector, and the answer was to use a 1d convolutional layer, the second question was a system design question.
A one hour interview with the hiring manager for the Robot Learning Platform team, half of it consisted of presentation of my past projects/discussion about the role and the other half was for coding exercises on pytorch and general robotic concepts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Present to me 3 projects that are relevant and some coding exercise where I had to implement forward and inversed kinematics with pytorch
Normal recruiter screen asking about background, resume and general thinking questions. recruiter was nice and helped with hints along the way. Problem solving was key for the question that was asked
I applied online. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Jan 2026
Interview
2 rounds back to back, leet code style coding questions and an FSM implementation, both drawing the model and in verilog. Interviewers were both nice and helpful, felt comfortable to ask questions.
Software Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at NVIDIA with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Intern roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 31 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at NVIDIA overall takes an average of 25 days.
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Background check: 11%
Presentation: 3%
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