Average Interview – Overall Positive Experience – No – Sat, 31 Oct 2015
Interviewed Oct 2015 in Pittsburgh, PA(took 1 days)
On Campus interview, basically it is a total review about the computer architecture ranging from superscalar structure to multi-core processors. In the morning is the first screen, then they offer you an interview in the afternoon. The total interview length is 30 mins. It is a 1 on 1 interview. It is not very questions-oriented. We broadly talked about the cache hierarchy, virtual address, register renaming, branch prediction, load/store bypassing/forwarding, memory coherence in multi-core processors, the basic structure of multi-core processor and a lot of details in processor designs. The interview in general is pretty relaxed. You could draw a lot of figures to help the interviewer to understand your point.
Interview Questions
Q: Why do we need brach prediction?
Q: Detailed description about the cache address structures
Q: Out-of-Order superscalar processor structure
Answer Question
Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test
