Gale CEO Rahul Gudise.
Velocity Incubator
My philosophy about luck is that it's really about how many times you're willing to flip the coin. At some point, it stops being luck and turns into inevitability.While studying at the University of Waterloo, I treated applying to internships like a statistical game.Working my way through a GitHub list of openings, I sent out 200-300 applications before landing an internship at Tesla. The next recruiting cycle, I did it all over again to land one at Nvidia. I honestly don't even remember applying.After the initial callback, the hiring process was pretty chill. I had two interviews before Nvidia told me I got the job, and all in all, it took about four days. It helped that my background in high-performance software happened to fit what the data center tooling team needed.The role was a little atypical because I worked out of the Redmond, Washington, office rather than Nvidia's Santa Clara headquarters, where most interns are based. The community felt smaller, but I had great mentors, and the work-life balance was reasonable. Sometimes you would work overtime, but most people worked pretty normal 9-to-5 hours.What surprised me most was how passionate everyone was. The engineers didn't treat their work as just a job — they treated it like a craft, and genuinely cared about building great software.The greatest gift Nvidia gave meI came into the internship wanting to be a full-time Nvidia employee. I thought that the money you could make in Big Tech would bring a sense of freedom.
