I did an onsite interview with Nvidia for a system sw role. Prior to the onsite I had 3 freaking phone screens. Never seen these many phone screens before deciding on an onsite. Had nothing to do with my performance during the phone screens. They had intimated me that there would be 3 phone screens. Then came the onsite. The onsite was scheduled to be 6 back-back interviews without a break in between....seriously The first 4 were technical interviews. Then came in the director. He brought with him 2-3 sheets of questions printed on them. And asked me to solve them. While I did those questions, he pulled out his phone and was probably texting/whatever. I just felt like walking out of the interview! And finally the hiring manager. He too started asking technical coding questions, as if he didn’t trust the members on the interview panel..... Good luck Nvidia in finding engineers!
The recruiter has not been involved in the entire process till now. Even the scheduling was done by a scheduling assistant. The recruiter had stopped by during the onsite for like 5 mins.
Well then that’s why. This became a freight train run amuck. Everyone and their aunt wanted to interview you and the scheduler just did as told. No sweat off their back bc they don’t have metrics like recruiters have. They have no skin in the game. They are hiring so massively there there’s not enough recruiters to properly manage it all.
I had similar experience with Hpe/Aruba. Director pulled phone and started texting. Felt that she was not interested. And I looked at the panel later on LinkedIn. People had average background not qualified enough
Usually this is not the case but shit happens, most likely you were not prepared / did poorly in the interviews, move on.
Dude. How did you deduce that I did poorly on the interviews ? In fact I am pretty sure to get the offer from nvidia! I never expect an interviewer to hand me a sheet of paper with questions on it and be left alone to solve them during an in person interview. That too a director.
I had some dude at Harris Corp do that to me before I left my previous company. Don’t even understand why that guy interviewed me as he was some web developer and the position was for OS and networking level type work.
Dont join such a group.
Which team was this for?
Sorry to hear about this OP. I know it sucks big time. If that matters, I had similar experience at Apple.. two phone screens followed by 8 round of back to back interviews (9:00 am - 5:00 pm). Hack the hiring manager didn’t even let me eat lunch ( I was on the whiteboard throughout). I think I did well for the most part but after 4:00 pm I was so tired, thirsty, hungry and exhausted that I couldn’t think properly and completely messed up final round( which was with the director). That one round was my worst interview performance. Didn’t get a job and I was obviously disappointed but decided Never to apply at Apple again( looks like the last round sealed my fate. Who knows there could be other factors as well. I don’t know)
Sorry to hear about that! The fact that you reached the end (usually the director), means that the last interview swayed it away. The lunch interview is usually to be done by someone who did the phone screen. So that they don’t have to ask you technical questions and let you take the break. Apple’s interview process too is very inconsistent. Especially there are no guidelines given to the interviewers and interviewers end up discussing the candidates performance going into the interview. This introduces a bias right away. Hopefully the next time you interview with Apple, you get a better experience!
Np OP! I really don’t mind going through full day of interviews since companies want to hire the best candidate for the job and I completely get it. The hiring manager already did one of my phone screens for 1 hour. My lunch interview was also scheduled with the hiring manager and according to the recruiter, it was supposed to be very informal interview where I will get chance to learn more about the team, nature of work, culture etc( like u mentioned).. instead hiring manager just came in and started asking questions. I was on white board throughout the whole time which was supposed to be my lunchtime. Then thing that sucked more was that throughout that 1 hour he kept on constantly laughing and telling me that sorry I know it’s lunch time but let’s do this 1 more question( as if he was making fun of me). By the time it was 1, next interviewer came in and HM blatantly said sorry u had to miss your lunch.. he never told the next interviewer that I didn’t get chance to eat so he also started asking questions..such a horrible experience. I know I shouldn’t generalize and may be other teams are better from interviewing perspective but I would definitely think twice before applying
Good reason not to work there. Interview is a two way street.
What group/role was that?
System sw development role. Don’t want to name the group, for it could easily identify me.
This is a shame to an insider that this happened to a potential candidate. To an outsider, it is awful to be treated like that. Not adding salt to wound, it is better to find out early than too late.
It means that director and hiring manager are incompetent in that domain, so you'd better not join.
This is a case where the recruiter has zero influence or relationship w the hiring manager and teams. Or the recruiter is incompetent. This is real poor candidate experience. Put this on glassdoor. It’ll cause them to wake up.
And minus the stock price it's a shit company too.
What are you taking about. It's literally one of the best run tech companies, look at their strategy