Discuss activities, role, and project deep dive
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This question evaluates a candidate's communication, leadership, ownership, impact articulation, and technical judgment by requiring examples of professional growth, a concise role overview, a resume project deep dive, and thoughtful questions about the team.
NVIDIA
Aug 7, 2025, 12:00 AM
Software Engineer
Onsite
Behavioral & Leadership
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Behavioral Onsite Prompt — Role Walkthrough, Project Deep Dive, and Professional Growth
Context: You are interviewing for a Software Engineer role. Provide a structured, concise narrative that a first-time listener can follow. Timebox your answer to ~5–7 minutes.
Please cover the following:
- Professional Growth Outside of Work
- Share 2–3 activities (e.g., open-source, courses, reading groups, side projects, mentoring).
- For each: what you did, why you chose it, and one concrete way it improved your on-the-job performance.
- Current Role Overview
- Team mission and product/scope.
- Your ownership areas and typical stakeholders (e.g., PM, infra, data, SRE).
- Key metrics you’re accountable for (e.g., latency SLOs, reliability, cost, adoption).
- One Resume Project Deep Dive
- (a) Goal and context/problem statement.
- (b) Your specific contributions (be explicit about your role vs. the team’s).
- (c) Key technical decisions and trade-offs (e.g., architecture, data structures, concurrency model, tooling).
- (d) Impact metrics (latency, throughput, reliability, cost, adoption, developer velocity).
- (e) What you’d do differently with hindsight.
- Close with Curiosity
- Ask two thoughtful questions about our product and our team that show genuine interest and signal how you evaluate fit.
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