Nvidia
Hardware and AI software leader powering the global generative AI revolution.
4 Rounds
~25 Days
Very Hard
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
Design a recommendation system for GeForce NOW to suggest games to users. How would you incorporate user hardware constraints, network latency, and historical play data?
#Recommendation Systems
#Machine Learning System Design
#Two-Tower Models
#Real-time Inference
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
Design a system to serve a large language model (like Llama-3 70B) to thousands of concurrent users. How do you handle continuous batching and GPU memory constraints?
#Model Serving
#LLMs
#Continuous Batching
#Scalability
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
Design a high-throughput, low-latency API for serving a 70B parameter LLM. Discuss batching strategies like continuous (in-flight) batching and KV cache management.
#ML System Design
#LLM Inference
#Concurrency
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
Design a real-time personalized game recommendation engine for the GeForce NOW platform. How do you handle cold starts for new users and new games?
#Recommender Systems
#Real-time Systems
#Data Pipelines
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
Design an end-to-end MLOps pipeline for continuously training and deploying an autonomous vehicle perception model.
#MLOps
#Computer Vision
#CI/CD
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
Design a distributed training architecture for a multi-modal foundation model across a cluster of 4096 H100 GPUs. How do you address fault tolerance and stragglers?
#Distributed Systems
#High Performance Computing
#Fault Tolerance
Data Scientist
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System Design
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medium
Design a telemetry anomaly detection system that monitors millions of GPUs globally and alerts engineers to hardware degradation in real-time.
#Streaming Data
#Anomaly Detection
#Monitoring
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