AMD Oncampus Experience

Company : AMD ( Advanced Micro Devices) YOE : Freshers College : IIIT (tier 1.5) Entire process was very quick, Placement Cell invited AMD for a drive on Thursday and we had the...

Company : AMD ( Advanced Micro Devices)
YOE : Freshers
College : IIIT (tier 1.5)

Entire process was very quick, Placement Cell invited AMD for a drive on Thursday and we had the Online Assessment on Monday.
Out of 210 applications, only 35 were shortlisted
For SDE roles, only CSE guys were picked with CPI >= 8.5 and strong scores in 10th and 12th

For embedded roles, only ECE guys with relevent profiles were picked, that too with a strong CPI

Assessment had a mix of aptitude, CS fundamental MCQ\'s and 2 programming questions; which was common for all roles.

Based on other campus hirings, they focus heavily on pointers, memory management and Operating Systems.
MCQ\'s were based on C++, although programming questions could be attempted in Python as well.

Recommended topics (as per a mutual from IIIT Kota) :
1. Virtual Function
2. Dangling pointer
3. Garbage collection
4. Weak pointer, Strong pointer
5. Friend function
6. Vtable

Awaiting on the shortlist

For python roles read about the following
1. Reference counter
2. Types of reference, which ones get marked for garbage collection
3. Destructor in OOPs

Also asked from Computer Architecture
1. Pipelining
2. Pipelining hazards (data, structural, control hazards)

From what I \'ve heard, interviews are simple, project discussion followeed by a vibe check to gauge your interest to learn