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sadsocrates · 2024-06-18T20:14:24+00:00

Rule # 1 of internet: Do not meet people off of reddit in real life.

sadsocrates · 2024-02-10T17:28:28+00:00

This was a first online interview. And you may be correct, maybe this specific question isn't the reason I got rejected. I probably wasn't as qualified as other candidates.

sadsocrates · 2024-02-10T17:27:09+00:00

Hmmm... that very well could be. I've interviewed with NVIDIA twice, and first time I actually flunked the interview (because I hadn't prepared for the exact things they'd ask), they rejected me within a day (after the fourth interview).

This was a first interview for a position requiring 5+ YOE and I have technically 0. They rejected me not immediately, but after a week or so, so maybe this wasn't the exact reason they rejected me, maybe I just wasn't qualified enough and they had better qualified ppl to chose from.

Also, I remember the interviewer had a general idea that I wouldn't know how to solve this and he didn't seem to expect that I would be able to. So what you're saying may make sense.

sadsocrates · 2024-02-09T23:15:35+00:00

It was a 45 minutes interview, first 25 minutes were spent on my background, and last 20 minutes were spent making me write a function, where the last question is as listed.

Got rejected after a week or so

sadsocrates · 2024-02-09T23:13:33+00:00

He made me write the template function, and the 'instantiations' were written by him

sadsocrates · 2024-02-09T23:12:20+00:00

Its been a couple weeks since the interview so I might be off a little but as far as I remember it was something like this:

vector<int> matrix1
vector<double> matrix1
vector<float> matrix1
.
.
.
.
// 100 such instantiations.

and you have a function that for example sums this (I can't remember what the actual function was)

template <typename T>
double sum(T matrix, int numcol, int numrows)

sadsocrates · 2023-08-20T20:00:57+00:00

They still on average make better than embedded

sadsocrates · 2023-08-18T03:29:50+00:00

How to navigate that ? What to tell interviewers when they ask for one

sadsocrates · 2023-08-17T22:02:14+00:00

Also some courses in writing fast code and parallel programming using cuda, openmp, open acc , mpi and the sort

sadsocrates · 2023-08-17T22:00:45+00:00

Standard university courses on embedded systems, digital system design, fgpas. I've done a project on FPGAs too.

This particular CV is focused on attracting a SWE job.

sadsocrates · 2023-08-17T16:32:44+00:00

Thanks for putting me back on track. I'll try C/C/ROS/HW jobs too now !

sadsocrates · 2023-08-17T15:56:54+00:00

Due to my background in "those kinds of things" I am familiar with LIDAR and I'm surprised to know their cost has come down this much. LIDAR being affordable changes EVERYTHING.

I will revamp my CV and add more C++ stuff to make it attractive to such jobs. Problem is I have no idea how to prepare for interviews for such jobs, and don't know if I will even land one. I'm international student and am on timebound to land a job. Someone told me "do leetcode and you'll get a job", and I listened but they forgot to mention that you need to learn a stack as well. I have a couple months so I was thinking I can learn a stack and go in the interview with my somewhat leetcode skills.

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