I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at AMD (Markham, ON) in Sep 2018
Interview
This was as boring and mediocre as they come, I had expected much more from an iconic corporation --
After the typical upload-your-resume-to-our-outdated-cms I got a call from a recruiter and scheduled an interview in Markham
The interviewer was a 20+year veteran of the company along with someone whom I can only describe as his lackey; they were shamelessly underprepared for any sort of meaningful engagement and didn't even seem to be aware that a candidate was in the office based on their demeanour
The primary fellow, a 20+year veteran with a list of accolades as long as Jack Kerouac's manuscript was wearing a grey t-shirt and jeans and was the very face of festering suburban corporate entitlement, to such an extent that he was totally oblivious and thought he was actually being approachable
I had prepared to the best of my abilities and dressed professionally; they couldn't even return the courtesy of following customary interview protocol -- of course I know it's cliché in the software industry by now and it's a complete joke but I wonder to this day: did he show up to his own interview all those years ago wearing a grey T-shirt? -- I somehow don't believe it, but here's a pseudocode implementation of my internal logic
if(he did) {
his standards haven't risen in 20+ years;
} else if (he didn't) {
his standards have slipped over 20+ years;
}
=> either way: entitled and blindly, shamelessly so
I rejected them during this interview, outright. The last thing I wanted was to spend any portion of my career working for this gray man in his gray world lest the entitlement rub off on me too, by association
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about my career and achievements, they told me about their lucrative arrangement with one of their partners in Cupertino, apparently this was a high profile role but they seemed like it was sandwiched between meetings for the TPS report
OA as typical, nothing else was there and no one else was spoke to and there was no other or out of the ordinary interview process conducted at this time. Unless i later receive a second round this was all.
Selected as per resume based shortlisting at college campus placement its came for internship purpose BTW . Best wishes for me to be the best candidate for software required role.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at AMD
Interview
The role System Development Engineer is essentially a rebranded version of the traditional System Administrator position used previously at Google. The interview style felt similar to the Production Engineer (PE) interviews at Meta. The discussion focused on system design and Linux fundamentals, with the interviewer asking follow-up questions to go deeper into implementation details.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design scenario
If you have one server with a single public IP address, and you need to host websites for several businesses (for example: a café, a butcher shop, and a repair shop), each with its own URL/domain, how would you set it up?
Explain how multiple domains can be served from the same public IP.
The interviewer then asked for more detailed implementation steps.
Linux fundamentals
Explain what happens under the hood when the ls command is executed in Linux.
