NVIDIA Software Engineer interview experience

They asked detailed questions about the projects and technologies I mentioned, and the conversation stayed fairly interactive.

I also got hit with C++ fundamentals and internals. I remember questions about how vectors grow and what happens during reallocation, iterator invalidation, smart pointers, and memory management. They also asked how unordered_map works under the hood, which pushed the discussion beyond just syntax and into implementation-level understanding.

In the end, I didn’t receive an offer. Still, the interview felt conversational and focused on whether I truly knew what I’d