How it went
The interview process for the Software Engineer role at AMD involved two technical rounds totaling approximately 5.5 hours. The interviews progressed from basic to complex questions, emphasizing problem-solving, C++ fundamentals, data structures, memory management, and operating systems. Coding challenges often began simply and evolved with modified constraints, requiring increasingly optimized solutions. While the candidate effectively communicated their thought process and initial problem-solving, deeper follow-up questions on low-level systems and advanced optimizations proved challenging.
What came up
Data ModelingMachine LearningConceptStatistics & ExperimentationData AnalysisCodingSQLData Structures & AlgorithmsPeople ManagementProject ManagementProgram SenseCross FunctionalSystem DesignProduct DesignEstimationProduct StrategyAnalyticalTechnicalExecutionBehavioralCustomer InteractionApp CritiqueData Pipeline DesignArtificial IntelligencePresentationPortfolio ReviewDebuggingCode ReviewProject Discussion
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.