This year, NVIDIA opened a new metaverse department in Taiwan and is recruiting for various positions, including front-end engineers, and research scientists. I went for an interview for the deep learning engineer position.
First of all, I will only write about the interview process and not the interview questions.
It is the department responsible for the Omniverse product at NVIDIA. To be honest, I don’t know exactly what they are doing. According to the HR, it is a team that generates 3D objects in the metaverse based on reality, using deep learning, computer vision, physical simulation, and so on. Although I still didn’t have any special thoughts after HR’s introduction, I was very interested because it was NVIDIA. The position I applied for was Deep Learning Engineer - Omniverse Digital Human, which can be worked in either Hsinchu or Taipei office and does not require knowledge of CUDA or parallel computing (although it would be a plus). In addition to deep learning engineers, NVIDIA is also looking for research scientists who publish papers. It is rare to see these roles in Taiwan, so how could I not apply!
Day 0: Asked a friend met on the Internet for a internal referral.
Day 5: HR introduced the role and asked some general questions that HR would ask. Then they gave me an assignment that they estimated would take four to five hours to complete and asked me to return it within a week.
Day 8: Completed the assignment and submitted it.
Day 16: HR emailed me to say that the assignment had passed and asked me to provide available interview times.
Day 18: Two rounds of online interviews, one hour per round, but the second round went overtime and lasted a total of two and a half hours. Fortunately, the interview was with employees from the UK office, so the time was very friendly to Taiwan. I interviewed from 5:30 pm to 8 pm. The topics included past working experience, machine learning basics, applications, and programming - just the content that a machine learning engineer would encounter in their daily work.
Day 38: Received a rejection letter.
The interview content was not like FAAMG that have a standardized process. I don’t know if there are additional interviews if I pass the online interview. I guess each department may decide on its own interview questions and recruitment standards, so it is difficult to prepare. You can only rely on whether you have studied in your daily life.