Does anyone here have any experience with and suggestions on how to prepare for interviews with NVidia? My first round is technical (programming on hackerrank) and it is with the hiring manager himself, for 55 minutes. I checked the list of NVidia tagged questions on Leetcode and in the past 6 months, there have only been 17 questions asked. Am I correct in thinking that they seem to have stopped (or at least minimised) asking questions from leetcode? Besides DSA, is there anything else that I need to study? NVidia's interviews are team-based, you interview with the team that has the role that you applied to and as such, some people say they may ask you stuff other than the usual suspects. The recruiter/coordinator wasn't very helpful, in fact there was no recruiter interview at all and only communication has been through email so far. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Sorry I've been so silent. I have been swamped with life, and haven't been that public with it. First, my poor and well-loved dog is dealing with some recently diagnosed cancer that is terminal for him. It's kept me pretty busy, because he stopped eating his regular food, and I've been having to do a lot of meal prep home cooked meals and such for him just to get him to eat. Then, our A/C died. Super fun for South Texas, where it's a requirement for living. Lastly, I've had a lot of interviews and recruiter interactions over the past few weeks. Of them, a few fails but entirely based on steep competition and not me. However, there is a win, because I've accepted a contract role that I start on Tuesday, which may (but is not promised) convert to full time. Finally I have income again after almost 2 years and now over 30 different companies I've interviewed with. So, if you are searching for a job still, keep it up, it'll happen only if you keep the work up. The world can only seem to be against you for so long before you realize it's just a place that changes a lot and you just need to constantly adapt.

Sorry I haven't been very active the last few weeks. I've been dealing with some personal life and interviewing. However, I wanted to drop this in here. I recently did a technical challenge, and I felt strongly that I nailed it, more confidently than most of the technical challenges I've done. But I got a "no" today, after waiting two weeks for a response while their only HR gatekeeper was on vacation. And the feedback was so short-sighted and awful. So I have a new rule for myself. If any company wants to give me a take home technical challenge, they have to schedule a follow-up interview with it. I'm not going to let them use it as purely a filter anymore. This is going to go poorly for some opportunities, I know that, but I think it's more than reasonable to ask for that. Thoughts?

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I thought I would share something I do to prepare for my first interview with a company. I research as much useful information about the company as I can. Back before AI, this meant doing exhaustive Google and LinkedIn searches, checking Reddit posts, X/Twitter feeds, and of course checking Glassdoor. Well, with AI, I can go throw a contextual prompt at my preferred LLM and let it gather up all the reading information. That, and explore their website, which both well for the interview process. Here is an example prompt (I highly recommend Gemini Deep Research): ---------------------------------- I have a Senior/Staff Software Engineer job interview coming up soon. I have no doubts in my ability to do well in this interview, but I still need to prepare for it. This is the culture and vibe check interview, their first round. Here are the prep notes the <independent/staff> recruiter gave me: <Insert recruiter notes here> --- Do research on the company for me to help me learn more about them and help me prepare for the interview. Answer these questions if you can: <Insert a bulleted/numbered list of questions you want to know more about. I use my company "qualifier" questions. Example below.> 1) Do they compensate their people well for the level of work they do? 2) Do they honor a strong work/life balance with their employees? 3) Would working there be something I would be ok discussing with a group of elementary school children on career day? 4) What are their interviews like? What information should I know about their hiring process and technical interviews? ---------------------------------- What else do you all do to research a company before interviewing? Also, do you think it's too creepy to, for example, to hang a small pride flag or wear a pride shirt to the culture fit interview if you see the company heavily boasts DEI and women/LGBTQ+ equality in hiring and staffing?