I recently interviewed at Nvidia. I talked to 7 people. I responded to all of their (coding, GPUs, CUDA, etc). Later on they tell me that feedback is positive and they asked me for references. I provided names of few technical fellows (L10s) who I have reported to in the past (and also share few US patents). These folks have written recommendations letter in past. Two weeks later, I got an automated rejection email. That was highly surprising. I am really confused. I am not sure what the hiring manager, recruiter, panel is thinking? If you are not interested in hiring, why even waste a candidate’s time?
Same happened with me at apple, after all interviews it was rejected because they didn’t find experience relevant, mfuckers could have told before wasting a month and passjng all interview for me
Are you sure its about the same job opening
Did you meet the hiring manager?
Yes
I got a reject recently too. Granted there was 1 interview I could've done better, out of my 2 phones and panels. But my technology experience aligned well with the team. And I did pretty well in all other rounds. The recruiters didn't tell me any reason. What exactly is going on here? Do these folks need to interview to show some kind of numbers to their higher ups? I thought maybe my decision was due to an all-yes requirement. But you seem to have had a pretty clean process. And yet.
Which position?
samething happened with me..not going to apply to nvidia
What is your background?
Worked on GPUs since 2013 (undergraduate/PhD research)
They’ve been very selective due to large applicant pool.
I thought the decisions are based on interview performance which was positive (as mentioned by recruiter) Is the applicant pool bigger than Amazon? Amazon is terrible at many things. But at least their hiring decisions are directly based on interview performance
Many things influence the decision: interview performance, past experience, expertise compared to other people on the team and other candidates, hiring manager's biases. You can control for interview performance, but fit (as judged by the panel) and manager's bias is out of your control. We have a very large applicant pool, it's becoming difficult even to screen CVs, and there are many great candidates. Unfortunately, the consequence is that HM's bias has a huge influence, since most people do really well in their screens/interviews. Good luck with your job search.
Your last paragraph sounds cocky (we have so many CVs and other BS …). Don’t forget that recruiting is cyclical. One day you’ll be in market looking for job.
You dodged a bullet. Joining Nvidia now like buying bitcoin at $70k