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AMD Interview Questions & Reviews
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Sys/Test Validation Engineer II at AMD
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Markham, ON Jun 2012 – Reviewed Apr 17, 2013
Interview Details You need to have some sort of reference or PEY experience to get the interview. Most questions were related to Motherboard. Example: what are the component names, northbridge and southbridge, PCIE ports and lane identification.
Negotiation Details – No
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Validation Engineer at AMD
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Markham, ON Nov 2011 – Reviewed Apr 11, 2013
Interview Details interview contains some basic questions regarding types of display, components on the motherboards etc
Interview Question – what is the difference between 1080i and 1080p Answer Question
Negotiation Details – no negotiation
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Engineering Co-op at AMD
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 04, 2013
Interview Details Job was for application development. Some programming questions, and basic questions about the differences between C and C++. Some differences between a Heap and Stack, and how they are implemented in C++
Interview Question – What is threading? What problems may arise? Answer Question
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PEY Engineer Graphic Card QA at AMD
No Offer – Interviewed in Markham, ON Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 01, 2013
Interview Details Applied Online through U of T career portal. Got an email to arrange for an interview 2 weeks later. There were two interviewers one of them is really nice he basically explained what the job does what are the responsibilities. The second Interviewer straight up asking technical questions until you can't answer any more.
Interview Question –
1) tell me the important components on an mother board
2) where do you connect those components( hard drive, power supply, graphic card)
3) Do we use PCI or PCIE
4) important Components on Graphic Cards
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Test Engineer at AMD
No Offer – Reviewed Mar 25, 2013
Interview Details describing the functions of different components of a motherboard
Interview Question – what can you connect a vga port to Answer Question
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Member of Technical Staff Analog Designer at AMD
No Offer – Interviewed in Markham, ON Nov 2012 – Reviewed Mar 21, 2013
Interview Details I had phone interview with 3 managers from digital, mixed-signal and analog sections. each one of them took 10 minutes to ask technical questions such as basic analog equations, gain margin and phase margin definitions, sample and hold time, INL and DNL. they also asked very detailed questions about the projects I had on my resume.
Interview Question – Asking different equations. Answer Question
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PEY Power Engineer at AMD
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Oct 2009 – Reviewed Mar 12, 2013
Interview Details Applied through University Website and got contacted through email for interview on Campus. First asked what do you know about graphic boards? What kind of parts are on graphic boards? What is the most expensive parts on graphic boards? Asked about school related course on SMPS. Ask a buck converter question. Later asked about one behavioural question: what happens when two seniors ask you to complete task at once?
Interview Question – What is the lastest news on AMD? what is APU Answer Question
Negotiation Details – No negotiation as intern
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Engineer Internship at AMD
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON – Reviewed Mar 10, 2013
Interview Details some tech questions, basic knowledge such as capacitor, sampling, opamp, measurement, etc, takes about 45 mins, dont get frighten by the above topics, very fundemental questions such as whats the sampling frequency corresponding to a 10kHz signal ( amazingly i was told more than half interviewee cant answer such a question)
Interview Question – how 2 alleviate input fluctuation with the help of opamp and capacitor View Answer
Negotiation Details – none
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Product Development Engineer at AMD
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Markham, ON Apr 2012 – Reviewed Mar 06, 2013
Interview Details
Interview through the recruiter, first was a phone interview discussing resume and past projects. The in-person interview lasted 2-3 hours with multiple managers and engineers.
Questions about CMOS, ATE, PCIe and mainly questions about the resume. Everyone was polite and professional.
Interview Question – Describe the most difficult technical problem you faced and how you solved it. They would then ask you other ways you could have solved it, Answer Question
Negotiation Details – No negotiation, really competitive package
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Analog Design Engineer at AMD
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Markham, ON Oct 2009 – Reviewed Mar 02, 2013
Interview Details
Phone interview first then will invite to have on-site interview.
For a analog design engineer, the question will be more related to analog blocks like operational amplifier, common mode feedback, stability, voltage oscillator and phase lock loops design. It will also ask about the lab experiments.
Interview Question – The layout related problem. Answer Question
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