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      CPU Performance Engineer Interview

      Jul 28, 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Apple

      Interview

      Hiring manager reaches out to you and schedules a telephonic interview The technical round is about an hour long. The interviewer touches upon all the basic concepts of architecture. Overall experience was okay. Recruiter is pretty fast at responding.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Telephonic interview Architecture basics Cache coherence and Coherency protocols, Banking System, Multithreading, Operating system basics - race condition, mutex, semaphores, virtual memory, paging, fragmentation
      1 Answer

      Other CPU Performance Engineer interview reviews for Apple

      CPU Performance Engineer Interview

      Dec 29, 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Cupertino, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Dec 2015

      Interview

      I was asked some basic out-of-order execution questions during the interview. The interviewer wants me to walk through the ooo execution process. I forgot some details and seems he became upset. I have 6+ years' experience in this field, but seems he doesn't care about it at all. No discussion during the interview. The only thing he wanted is someone who can follow his question and give him the answer he wants to hear. I've heard many bad words that the hardware engineers in Apple are unhappy and usually face great pressure. I can feel that the rumor is true from this interview. I will never consider a company with such a culture.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      out-of-order execution questions
      Answer question
      3