AMD Interview Experience | Sr. Software System Designer | Bangalore

I recently interviewed with AMD, Bengaluru for a Senior Software System Designer role with around 5 years of experience. Sharing my interview experience for anyone preparing for similar roles. Round 1 - Coding + Resume (Online)

• Easy/Medium LeetCode-style coding.
• Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA) of two nodes in a Binary Tree
• Detailed discussion around my projects and resume.
• Focus was on problem-solving approach, code quality and complexity. Round 2 - OS + Concurrency + Coding (In-Person) Questions covered:
• Mutex vs Semaphore
• fork() and child processes
• User Mode vs Kernel Mode
• Process States
• Threads and synchronization
• CPU caches
• LRU Cache
• Easy/Medium coding:
  • Sort an array containing 0s and 1s
• The round was around 1.5 hours. Round 3 - Systems + Current Work (In-Person)
• Deep dive into my current project and responsibilities.
• Producer-Consumer problem.
• C/C++ fundamentals. (free & delete , malloc and new) etc.
• High-performance and system-level programming concepts. Hiring Manager Round (Online)
• Discussion around my current responsibilities and projects.
• Teamwork, collaboration and overall experience. Final Managerial Round (Online)
• Mostly non-technical discussion.
• Day-to-day work, development/release process, cross-team dependencies and joining availability.
• No major coding/technical questions. Outcome Selected and joined AMD as a Senior Software System Designer. Overall, my interview focused heavily on in depth discussion on C/C++, Operating Systems, multithreading/concurrency fundamentals, DSA and practical system-level problem solving.