NVIDIA Software Engineer interview experience

The timing and preparation were the first red flags: the interviewer was about 15 minutes late and it felt obvious they hadn’t read my resume.

They asked almost nothing about my actual experience—just one question framed around telling them one thing I’d done. After that, I got a coding question. I solved it in a single line, but they pushed back on the approach and insisted my solution wasn’t acceptable “that way,” so I spent the next 20 minutes working through the exact method they wanted. There wasn’t much back-and-forth; it felt like I was coding while they were doing other things on a