Advanced Micro Devices Hardware Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Test
Experience: Online Test(around 130 students):General Aptitude,C-Aptitude,Technical Section(ECE).

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Technical Interview 1 (18 students): In this interview I was asked about basic analog electronics,fliters based on OpAmps and frequency response of RLC circuits.I was also asked to explain about my intern projects in this round.
3.Technical Interview 2 (8 students): This round covered basics of Digital System Design and realizing boolean expressions using MOSFET'S (basic VLSI)

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round was just a formality to ensure that I am truly interested in the company.

General Tips: "1.Always explain each step while giving your answer. Your approach is more important than the final answer itself.
2. Know your basics in electronics well. This will help you to solve any question.
3. Be confident throughout the interview.
4. Highlight any important project in your resume especially those related to electronics."
Focus on reviewing your basics in Digital System Design, Circuit Theory and Linear Integrated Circuits. Also spend some time on studying the basics of VLSI.
Go through concepts of trees, linked lists, sorting and complexity of algorithms which will help in the online test.
Skill Tips: 1.For general aptitude the book 'Quantitative Aptitude by RS Aggarwal' should be helpful.
2.For C-Aptitude 'Let us C' by Yashwanth P Kanetkar helped me to revise the basics of C programming and the book 'Data Structures in C' by AM Padma Reddy helped for understanding the basics of linked lists and trees.
3. For the technical questions going through any basic analog and digital electronics book will suffice.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal

Round: Test
Experience: There were 20 questions in each section and 30 minutes for each. Aptitude was fairly difficult due to time. The remaining two sections had a lot of questions with unfamiliar concepts, like linked lists and digital communications. However, the questions were easy otherwise.
Tips: Practice aptitude questions to increase speed of solving.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interviewer was friendly and asked only if I was interested in a Communications intern in Hyderabad. He didn't ask any of the typical HR questions.

College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Duration: 1 hour

Round: Stress Interview
Experience: Baisc concepts that every electronics student must know about. (Like MOSFET, verilog concepts) But they test u in really detail so u need to be thorough with it concepts if u need to clear this round. They expect very accurate, precise and correct answers

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: U should be thorough with verilog concepts as well as everything related to digital systems.
Tips: Know ur subjects well. Be confident and prove that ur worth hiring. They might intimidate you but be confident about your answers. :)

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Resume related. Doing good projects and internships always help.

College Name: BITS Pilani

Round: Test
Experience: All Sections have negative marking.Aptitude part was easy and I felt Programming some tough as I was not accustomed to terms in coding.Third section has different profiles 1)Hardware(circuits and digital electronics) 2)Communication 3)Software.I appeared for Hardware and I felt the paper was lengthy as it has 20 questions and only 30 minutes to solve and it was tough.It was based on concepts like analog circuits,digital circuits,computer architecture.
Tips: For aptitude general prep is enough.
Section 3 plays important role.So you must be clear about related topics to answer.
Be relaxed and try to answer known questions leaving unknown behind.
Duration: 90 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I was selected for Hardware partas I applied for it.
Basic questions on circuits and digital systems were asked..
Some about diodes and its basic functions.
Digital questions on counters and decoders were asked.
Tips: Be confident on what you know and try to prove you were strong in particular area.
Questions were easy if u have prepared even a little bit.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: They ask about your interests and your future plans and what are you expecting from your job.They want to know are you flexible to do and learn any subject.
They ask what do you know about company.
Tips: Don't get nervous . Always keep your attitude up but don't be arrogant .
Learn something about Qualcomm like their products etc..

General Tips: Know your basics in electronics well.
Be confident throughout the interview.
Skill Tips: Prepare well about circuits.
Skills: Analog And Digital Knowledge
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: I was interested in Electronics and Qualcomm would be a great place to work in Electronics.

Round: Test
Experience: Initial shortlisting was based on the written test.Questions on data Structures, Operating Systems, Logical questions.Focus on Quant, Coding, Algorithms.
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interview is held in one HR round and one or two technical roundsRound duration around 15-20 minutesTechnical questions consisted of questions on Programming skills, Operating systems, and Puzzles

Round: HR Interview
Experience: General questions like why this company, tell us about yourself etc were asked.

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College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: Initial shorlisting was based on One Hour written test
Questions on Data structure,Operating system and logics were asked in the test
Tips: Focus on Quant,coding and algorithms
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Subject knowledge and skills tested in technical interview are:
1.Programming skills
2.Operating systems
3.Puzzels

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Very general questions like -why this company,tell something about yourself were asked .

General Tips: Discuss the logical questions with friends and prefer the group studies .
Skill Tips: Online materials are very useful for logical questions
Skills: Basics of C, Data structures, Networks, Puzzels
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Test
Experience: Pointer cut-off for this company was 8.5 and above. A written test for 50 marks which was subjective was conducted. Few were selected after the test.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Prepare Digital system design. VHDL coding(but they mainly concentrated on logic), Memory management (Cache and other things) .

General Tips: As it was 1 day process it was not that exhausting. But the hard work paid off. So it was a happy day. Their was lot of tension too during the process, not during my interview but looking at others performance. The competition is too much .The 1st and 2nd round was purely technical so it was challenging. HR was really chilled out.
Skill Tips: Try to be confident and dont fear the interviewers. They just try to put you in a difficult situation and see if you will be able to clear. But few interviewers will be very sweet. Never loose hope.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal

Round: Test
Experience: Written round separate for Hardware and Software profiles for an hour each. You could write only one. Maybe around 100 from EC/EE attended the test as there was a pointer cutoff of 8.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 8 people selected from the Hardware profile.

General Tips: The overall experience was rewarding at the end of it, but it was an exhausting process. All the waiting about for your interviews and results will drain your mental energy. I had a four hour wait in the TNP for my name to be called for the tech interview (I was the last to be interviewed). Even though it helps that you can ask from the previous candidates about what transpired in their interview, the wait can get really tiring. Also, be sure that as the afternoon progresses, even the panelists get tired of successive interviews, so there is an added challenge to make sure to be noticed. The one advantage of late Tech and HR rounds was that I had to wait for a very less time for the results. But at last after getting the offer, nothing matters much.
For the test, there will be a variety of questions over the entire scope of digital electronics. Expect STA, CMOS Implementation, Comp. Arch. basics, Memory models (we had a cache latency question), sequential circuits and synchronization, and even a question on C coding. So go into the test with a thorough revision of the 4 courses: DSD, MP, VLSID and DECA. The C question will be a comparatively easy one.
For the technical interview, "We've already tested your basic technical skills in the test. We want to know more about what you've worked on." was the first statement from the interviewer. So be prepared to explain any of your projects listed in your resume in detail. It helps if you have some project related to Computer Architecture to speak on. Of course there will be one or two technical questions after to probe the depth of your knowledge.
Skill Tips: 1) No aptitude preparation at all. This wan't required also as nVIDIA is a core Electronics company.
2) Preparation for written test : Review of all digital electronics and related courses taken during three years of ECE (VLSID, DSD, MP, DECA).
3) Nothing of analog electronics or linear systems asked in the test. Exclude such preparation if you want to write the nVIDIA Hardware test.
4) Have at least one Computer Architecture related project in your resume and be ready to speak on it.
5) Knowledge of VHDL/Verilog is a huge plus.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal