I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at AMD (Boxborough, MA) in Dec 2011
Interview
I had 2 phone interviews over 4 weeks. Generally discussed about current research projects. I was invited to meet the team in Boxborough, MA in December. I had around 7 personal interviews including one during lunch. The interviewers were pretty good asked questions on microarchitecture, projects, object oriented concepts, verification and logic design.
I was informed by the recruiter that they'll have a decision by next day. I was told that the team was interested in my candidacy but wanted to conduct one more interview over Skype. I didn't here back from them for about 4 weeks when they told me that they have already identified a other candidate.
Overall it was very poor and unprofessional job by the team manager and the recruiter.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at AMD in Sep 2011
Interview
I talked to the company's recruiters at my school's career fair and handed my resume. They seemed to show interest, and a while later I got an email to schedule a phone interview.
The interview itself wasn't too bad, I asked for a more software orientated role. I got asked some simple questions about circuit logic and design (measuring current, short circuit, etc.) and some object orientated programming concepts such as polymorphism, encapsulation, and run time for different scenarios.
Also they tried to gauge my hardware level such as the datapath of an architecture, the basics of a computer (motherboard), etc.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Describe what a short circuit is, and how to tell when it occurs?