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“Nothing really stood out. Very disconnected process. Interviewers sound very positive hinting follow-ups. But recruiter had no visibility on the next steps. It's best to go through a referral or take Nvidia's process as a lottery draw. If you are lucky recruitment process would work out. Good luck! ”
“The process was technically rigorous and focused heavily on ML systems fundamentals rather than generic LeetCode-style interviewing. The conversations went deep into large-scale training, distributed systems, performance bottlenecks, and reasoning about how computation and communication interact across GPUs. I thought the strongest part of the process was that I could connect several questions back to practical GPU and systems work I had done before. The harder parts were questions that required quickly reasoning through unfamiliar distributed-training scenarios and communicating the tradeoffs clearly while working through them.”
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“The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
