NVIDIA now joins the bandwagon of moving away from LeetCode-style interviews. The entire focus was on 3 key optimization concepts: - Gradient Descent and Global Optima - Full-Batch, Mini-Batch, and SGD - Generalization Gap and Flat Minima The best teams are looking for engineers with conceptual depth.

Sep 24, 2026 · 3:01 PM UTC

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Finally! Love to see it!
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This depends on the team and role
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That’s normal for ML roles
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This kind of interview requires much more human bandwidth from the company side to evaluate candidates. I guess that's a good thing
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this is not new. nvidia’s hiring has been very team-specific and non-leetcode focused for a while now
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Probably the best way
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Start teaching, presenting and not just reading, solving or watching. Multimodal learning over days. engineermaxxing.com/micro/in…
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I give it a year before we are begging for leetcode again.
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finallyyyyy
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finally companies testing actual ml knowledge instead of random tree traversals
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Common sense prevails
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