I applied online. I interviewed at AMD (Fort Collins, CO) in Aug 2017
Interview
Interviewer emailed me after one week. Total 3 rounds, first one with the manager and rest with team members. All of them asked various questions on DFT, as this is DFT intern role. Questions were on fundamentals. Interviewers also asked about resume and my projects, which were on DFT.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
1) What is the difference between functional testing and structural testing? Which one is
preferred?
2) Difference between a normal flop and scan flop?
3) How is boundary scan done?
4) Different types of faults in DFT? How to avoid them?
5) How to increase the fault coverage?
6) How is scan values passed in extest?
7) Write a script in Perl to change the values in the line.
8) Is structural scan denser or functional?
9) If we have don’t cares in the output of the scan, what is the problem and how is it solved?
10) What is scan compression?
11) Difference between transition delay and path delay?
12) Define SDD?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at AMD (Austin, TX) in Jul 2017
Interview
one interview! went very quickly. they needed someone fast. went through local contract company. was very streamlined. no weird brainteaser questions. just really interested in who i was and what i could bring to the team.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at AMD (Toronto, ON) in May 2017
Interview
Phone Interview for screening the basics + an in person 1 on 1 technical interview.
1 on 1: Logic questions cannot be prepared for.
Skim resume but not much questioning past work.
Not much interaction with the interviewer during technical segment; just find solution and draw on board.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system that sorts 6 numbers from least to greatest using black boxes that can sort 2 numbers.