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.
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