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AMD Forward-Deployed Engineer Interview Questions

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CodingStart here. 4 questions · ~39 min
Memory Coalescing and MatmulHard
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Select a GPU matrix multiplication tile by minimizing coalesced global transactions while respecting shared-memory usage.

Arrayscompiler optimizationcudaAMD
Ring-AllReduce ScalingHard
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Simulate Ring-AllReduce reduction and gathering across GPU nodes while reporting communication rounds and point-to-point messages.

distributed trainingArraysscalabilityAMD
Shared Memory Tiling for ConvsMedium

Tests ability to apply GPU memory hierarchy techniques to improve convolution performance.

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Technical Fundamentals9 questions · ~88 min
KV-Cache and PagedAttentionHard

Explains KV-cache memory and decode-time reuse, then shows how PagedAttention reduces fragmentation for AMD GPU inference.

technical fundamentalsRuntime Performancetechnical knowledgeAMD
Diagnosing GPU UnderutilizationHard

Diagnose low AMD GPU utilization by separating input, kernel, CPU, synchronization, and RCCL communication bottlenecks.

networking basicslinux tuninggpu utilizationAMD
Graph Compilation vs Eager ModeHard

Tests how PyTorch 2.0 torch.compile captures, specializes, fuses, and executes graphs differently from eager GPU execution.

technical fundamentalsRuntime Performancetechnical knowledgeAMD
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Behavioral & Leadership4 questions · ~39 min
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More topics2 questions · ~20 min
Optimizing PyTorch Input PipelineHard

Optimize a PyTorch input pipeline so AMD GPU training stays compute-bound instead of waiting on CPU data loading.

data loadinggpu hardwaredistributed trainingAMD
3D Parallelism for Large LLMsHard

Tests ability to design scalable distributed training strategies for very large models on AMD hardware.

distributed trainingsolution designAMD
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