Average Interview – Overall Positive Experience – No – Mon, 19 Sep 2016
Interviewed Sep 2,016 in Los Angeles, CA (took 14 days)
Two rounds of telephonic technical interview; first round had a lot of technical/ logic related questions; second round was a follow up and concentrated more on projects from my resume. Both interviews were an hour long.
Interview Questions
First Round:
1. AND and OR gate using 2:1 Mux
2. Single line logic to check if a number is a power of 2
3. Working of in-order pipeline
4. Inputs to the program counter in an in-order pipeline
5. Working of a Branch Predictor and operations on it
6. Converting the in-order pipeline to an out-of-order pipeline
7. Register renaming and examples of memory disambiguation
8. Recursive function to find factorial of a number
Second Round:
1. Project implementation details from resume
2. Function to perform binary search, first using iterations and then using recursion - also, how to terminate the recursion if the key is not found
Answer Question
Other Details
The interview consisted of Phone Interview, 1:1 Interview and Skills Test