I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at AMD
Interview
I got a referral for a position for a research position. I did the first stage of online interviews and the second stage of on-site interviews. Eventually, they chose another candidate who had worked with them previously. However, the hiring manager seemed really sorry and since my interviews went great, they referred me for a computer architect position in a different team. For that position, I did not even pass the screening interview and I got rejected with a copy-and-paste email, even though, during the interview, the other hiring manager mentioned the possibility of skipping some interviews (since I got to the final stage for the other role). Rather weird behavior.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of questions on computer architecture (caches, OoO pipelines, ...). No coding.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at AMD (Boxborough, MA) in May 2015
Interview
Four 1-hour phone conversations with research team members and 1 hours web presentation in front of research team members. Conversations were scheduled one after another. It all took a little over a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly related to background knowledge and current developments in the area. Also, some typical questions about cache hierarchy and architecture to test thinking. Some questions related to what would be involved in the project at this position.
