Talked with hiring manger, asked about my background and future career goals. Looks like that was not a good match. that was not a good match. But the interviewer was kind and the interview went smoothly.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at AMD (Orlando, FL) in Feb 2016
Interview
Phone screening: Took about 1 hour 20 mins. First 40 mins was about my background (resume and educational background and stuff). Next 40 mins was used for answering a few technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Resume questions:
Tell me about yourself (what courses you have taken and what areas of interest etc.)
Describe 3 of your projects (one design project, one verification project and one architecture project)
(details of each project was asked - like what was the clock period of your design, what language did you use, what do you mean by setup and hold time)
After each project, I was asked what technical skills I had gained from each of them.
Technical questions:
1. design question - given a code and asked to identify whether it was a sequential or combinational circuit and if sequential, how many clock cycles?
2. given a function (say c++ function) and asked what the outcome of the function was for a given input value (the function was for finding the nearest power of 2 lesser than the given integer)
3. design question - quickest algorithm to find the highest position of 1 (find the 1st '1' going from left to right) in a 16-bit input value.
4. list uvm component phases