NVIDIA interview notes, page 1 of 17

“I went straight for the cyclic sort approach since mutating the array was allowed, which worked fine.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I wrote the naive version pretty fast, swapping elements across the diagonal, felt good about it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was basically five questions dressed up as one and I didn't realize it until I was already three minutes into talking about core counts.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to hash map plus a min-heap of size N and explained why you'd evict the smallest count as you go.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the specific instance from somewhere in the back of my brain, the answer is 17 minutes, but I fumbled explaining WHY for a solid two minutes.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the easy stuff, more expressive model reduces bias but balloons variance, more training data cuts variance but costs compute and time.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is Nvidia so you'd think I'd have prepared harder for this.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one tripped me up a bit because I kept conflating positioning with feature comparison.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at NVIDIA, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is one of those questions where I always second-guess my calibration afterward.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at NVIDIA, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I rambled a bit here.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.