NVIDIA General Intern Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at NVIDIA.
NVIDIA
Design Automation Intern
Intern Easy Neutral experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Onsite Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding
First round was a 2-hour interview with two of the senior engineers on the team I'm interviewing with, most of it was talking about past internship experiences and past projects, and then 2 whiteboard questions that are simple leetcode style questions. The first one was explained very bad so I missed some details and didn't get it right, the second was fine but I didn't have enough time because I was speaking too much about past experiences.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Parse an array of strings and for each string starting at a certain index, check that a pattern in it appears in a previous string.
- Given a list of flights at an airport that can handle 20 planes at a time (landing and departure), figure out if the airport can manage that traffic load.
NVIDIA
Intern
Intern Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical
The round goes with a second one, each 45 minutes and I'm happy with the interview process. The questions are mostly technical, not for me. Solving small problems with optimal solutions. Recruiter guided nicely and whole process takes around 4 weeks.
Confirmed questions1 question
- How can you find out that the system is running slow?
NVIDIA
Ignite Intern
Intern Average Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds About 2 months
Interview process
Phone screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
Got an email hearing back about 3 months after I applied. They told me which team was interested in my resume. We scheduled a 30 minute behavioral interview with the director of the engineering team. They told me about the team, what they do, and asked questions about stuff on my resume. Even though the Ignite program is supposed to be a pre-internship for underrepresented students from low resources, it felt like the interviewer didn’t really know that, never asked why I was interested in the program, asked about AGILE and other software things a sophomore wouldn’t really know, and treated it like a regular SWE internship. I thought I did kind of bad, but I heard back a week later with good news. Then they set up a 30 minute technical interview with a software engineer manager. No coding questions, just technical concepts related to machine. They also asked if I had any follow-up questions from the behavioral interview. I answered them really well and connected it to their hobbies. Then I heard back a month later and they told me I didn’t get the offer. I’m pretty sure it was because of the behavioral.
Confirmed questions8 questions
- How comfortable are you with C programming?
- What are your hobbies? They don’t have to be related to computer science.
- Could you tell me a bit about yourself?
NVIDIA General Intern Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from NVIDIA interview reports.
“Given an array with integers, return the same array where all rows and columns that originally had zeros are set to zero.”
Read reports →“What do you more or less get if you take out the skip-connections from a U-Net?”
Read reports →“Why does a CPU have two different modes, kernel mode and user mode?”
Read reports →“Find the minimum number of weighings needed to determine the lighter box among 8 boxes using a balance.”
Read reports →“How would you count the number of 1 bits in an integer?”
Read report →“Q: How would you reverse a list in place using C++?”
Read report →“Design a 2*1 multiplexer using the minimum number of NAND gates only?”
Read report →“What is the difference between a task and a function in SystemVerilog?”
Read report →“Can you explain how to find the size of a variable in C?”
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