NVIDIA interview notes, page 14 of 17

“This question is way bigger than it sounds.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had opinions on this but fumbled the three-differences part.” 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.

“Wasn't expecting this to come up so directly.” 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.

“The answer they were looking for is collapsing the inline buffer and the pointer into a union so they share the same memory, then using a flag to track which one is active.” 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 two-pointer approach going in but spent way too long second-guessing the dedup logic.” 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.

“My first instinct was LRU cache and I basically started coding before fully thinking through the size-based eviction.” 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.

“Started with a simple key-value model and CAS operations, which felt right, but then they pushed on horizontal scaling and I fumbled a bit trying to explain per-key sharding with a single writer per shard.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Wasn't expecting this to come up so directly.” 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.

“This was basically a 'show me everything you know' question and I fumbled the sequencing badly.” The rest of the author's notes on AI Engineer interview at NVIDIA, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Two questions stapled together, which threw me off a bit.” 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.