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“Their bar is pretty high for technical knowledge for PMs, but they don’t test it directly. They expect you to know their products, understand machine learning concepts, and be plugged into the current state of affairs.”
“What surprised me most was how unstructured NVIDIA felt. People were kind of making questions up on the spot, so it felt luck based, and culture-wise they almost expect like a sweat shop thing, more Apple or Amazon than Google.”
“One thing about Nvidia is none of the generic PM frameworks make sense. I literally printed all of their engineering blogs, read the research papers, and prepped by writing out how I’d design the data strategy for NeMo services.”
“What stood out about Nvidia was how low level they went. I got the sense they don’t want you using a lot of these high level library functions, and implementing an entire transformer from scratch was honestly what helped me most.”
“They showed me this intentionally vague architecture with Kafka, Jupyter, and an experiment dashboard, and the whole prompt was basically just, "it’s slow." Then they pivoted to a custom system training LLMs across 500 nodes and kept drilling into failure modes and latency.”
“Cosmos was clearly one of Nvidia’s most strategic bets because Jensen has two children and both were tied to it, and his daughter was actually my final interviewer. She was so laid-back and casual that I almost forgot how critical that round really was.”
“So basically, it was a contract rule which I was contacted by a recruiter via LinkedIn in mail and then they scheduled an interview in which there were two interview interviews interview me they ask me about my driving skills as it was hundred percent a travel role for the first few months, and I was also asked about the basics of the Linux data stream and other computer science fundamentals”
“Coding, Data Structures & Algorithms These questions focus heavily on C/C++ mechanics, memory manipulation, and strings. "Implement an LRU cache with serialization and evolving constraints." "Design a simple hashmap without any STL." "Implement memcpy and memmove from scratch, first defining the difference between them, then writing the implementation." "Write functions to serialize and deserialize a list of strings." "Reverse a linked list." "Merge Intervals." "Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return true if nums has a subarray of at least two elements whose sum is a multiple of k."”
“Interviews went well. Company found a better candidate. I got very good feedback from my interviewers though.”
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“The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
