NVIDIA·Software Engineer·Hiring Manager Screen
- What are you looking for in your next role?
- Are you comfortable commuting to the office three times a week?
“Said embedded firmware, which felt obvious given what I applied for.”
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Most of these NVIDIA write-ups come from Software Engineers (137), then Product Managers (15) and Data Scientists (10). The most reported rounds are the technical phone screen (106), the system design round (28), the hiring manager screen (13) and the product sense round (13).
166 interview notes · updated Aug 2026
“Said embedded firmware, which felt obvious given what I applied for.”
“This wrecked me a little.”
“The no-loops constraint is what makes this non-trivial.”
“Fumbled this a bit.”
“The part that tripped me up was 'precise point of disagreement.' I had a story ready but it was fuzzy on the actual crux, more like a general tension than a specific call.”
“This was the core question and it ate up most of the interview.”
“This one had more layers than I expected.”
“I knew the general story but fumbled the exact decomposition.”
“My first instinct was trial division and I started coding it up before they even finished explaining.”
“I rambled a bit on the first project and ate up too much time before they steered me elsewhere.”
Candidates most often report a technical phone screen (106 write-ups), a system design round (28), a hiring manager screen (13) and a product sense round (13).
Across 106 technical phone screen write-ups, the most tagged question topics are Technical Trade-offs (161 questions), System Design (97) and Algorithms & Data Structures (96).
Across 28 system design write-ups, the most tagged question topics are System Design (52 questions), Technical Trade-offs (46) and API & Integrations (13).