I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) in Jan 2024
Interview
1st round to talk with manager about resume. The team is working on the nemo framework.
2nd round system design and domain knowledge. I was asked how to improve my previous RAG system and how to speedup inference.
3rd do not get but I was told that there are three rounds for the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First round is just asking things on the resume. Nothing special.
Second round is about system design and domain knowledge. I was asked how to improve my RAG system in my previous intern. The interviewer is more interested in inference speedup and he wanted to know if I have any experience on Nvidia Nsight tool. Nsight System and Nsight Compute is enough. No need to talk about Nsight Graphic.
L'objectif est de passer devant différents membres de la futur équipe afin d'évaluer les compétences techniques ainsi que le futur relationnel avec l'équipe. Plusieurs entretiens techniques sont attendus avec différentes séniorités
Was asked many AI-related questions. It is clear NVIDIA has a focus on AI competency, even if you aren’t working within an AI-related role. Overall, a challenging interview. Passion is a must.
Interview with HM, then with SA team member. Interview with HM went well. Then I waited >1 month for the SA team member to come back from holidays. The day of that 2nd interview, the interviewer didn't show up and I contacted the recruiter. The interviewed joined 50 minutes late and had a 10 minute chat about the role, where he didn't ask me any questions. Result? Rejection.