Staff Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at AMD with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Staff Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at AMD overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at AMD as a Staff Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at AMD in Oct 2024
Interview
Manager round (comprised of technical questions + background and work ex + coding problems) + 4 Virtual Onsite rounds. Overall decent interview but some of the questions were beyond my scope/knowledge. For staff level roles, they do expect some very specific domain knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
a. Pointers – how to allocate a integer pointer
b. Synchronization using Mutex
c. Mutex vs semaphores
d. Smart pointers in C++
e. Lambda functions in C++
f. Merge Intervals -- LC
g. Design a phonebook
h. What is your experience with performance counters.
i. What are the types of overloading.
j. API vs ABI
k. How do you typically handle a perf issue.
l. What is template specialization ?