I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at AMD (Austin, TX) in Oct 2024
Interview
HR call then followed by a series of interviews
1st HR
2nd Manager round and some problem-solving
3rd Technical round and domain-oriented
4th Technical round with two two-person panel
overall it was quiet a experience
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 st round was with the manager of the team and it went well. He is poliet and encouraging.
2nd round was technical and asked few question about the gates and everything domain based and some python codes
Next was with some senior who is full of attitude and was very rude.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at AMD in Oct 2024
Interview
Manager round (comprised of technical questions + background and work ex + coding problems) + 4 Virtual Onsite rounds. Overall decent interview but some of the questions were beyond my scope/knowledge. For staff level roles, they do expect some very specific domain knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
a. Pointers – how to allocate a integer pointer
b. Synchronization using Mutex
c. Mutex vs semaphores
d. Smart pointers in C++
e. Lambda functions in C++
f. Merge Intervals -- LC
g. Design a phonebook
h. What is your experience with performance counters.
i. What are the types of overloading.
j. API vs ABI
k. How do you typically handle a perf issue.
l. What is template specialization ?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at AMD (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2024
Interview
1. 30 minute recruiter call (initial phone screen). Pretty Chill. Just logistics.
2. Two 45-minute interviews with 2 of the hiring managers. Mixture of resume walkthrough, live coding (but mostly walking them through your thought process), and technical questions. Nothing behavioral really.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How does the self attention layer work in transformers?