Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at AMD with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 58% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 41 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 Software Developer according to 41 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 18%
Group panel interview: 13%
Background check: 11%
Presentation: 6%
Personality test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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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.
This was an initial screening round focused on background alignment and basic technical fit. No live coding. No deep system design discussion.The interviewer showed interest in a CUDA kernel optimization project I worked on and asked follow-up questions about profiling tools and specific optimizations (e.g., memory coalescing, shared memory usage).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions Asked:
1. Can you briefly introduce yourself and your recent projects?
2. What experience do you have with CUDA or GPU programming?
3. How do you identify performance bottlenecks in a kernel?
4. What is the difference between memory-bound and compute-bound workloads?
5. Are you familiar with AMD GPU architecture, ROCm, or HIP?
6. What is your current visa status and availability to start?
Simple interview questions related to low-level systems, x86, TSO, etc. simple C programming, some stuff related to graphics programming -- very very reasonable for someone with >5 years of exp