AMD Software Engineer interview experience

The responsibilities they described included simulating new architectural features in architectural simulators, correlating with RTL, and then doing post-silicon performance validation.

The calls themselves were intense and ran through both basics and project-level depth. They asked resume-based questions and then went into detailed technical topics. I covered front-end and back-end ideas around power analysis, including what the inputs and outputs are, what checks happen after power planning, and what components contribute to power dissipation. We also talked about tricky modeling concepts