HPC Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at NVIDIA with 3.7 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 58.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for HPC Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at NVIDIA overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at NVIDIA as a HPC Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 43%
One on one interview: 29%
Personality test: 14%
Phone interview: 14%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA in Mar 2024
Interview
Single zoom interview with the team lead. One hour interview, mostly questions about Linux and previous experience. Includes remote connection to a terminal on a cloud instance to run linux commands to do specific tasks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do three numbers for load average mean in the output of "top" command?
The interview process consisted of an initial phone screening followed by a technical interview focused on HPC concepts, Linux administration, and performance optimization. The communication was clear, and the interviewers were professional throughout.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What performance tools or methods do you use to diagnose bottlenecks on an HPC cluster?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Mar 2024
Interview
5 rounds of 1-1 interview, 1 round with group director. 1 round with manager. 3 rounds with peers. technical questions regarding CUDA, GPU, Coding optimizations and general questions regarding past experiences on Parallel computing, scientific computations.