I applied through university. I interviewed at Ampere Computing (Bengaluru) in Jul 2023
Interview
They shortlisted some students via a quiz test in first 30 minutes and so 40 people came and they only took top 10 in 40 and this quiz was mind you offline so we all went there and didn't pass the test and came back like if you are calling for interview then directly call for interview and not for some test that you could've easily conducted online and saved so many peoples time and energy, very bad experience.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Ampere Computing
Interview
I got the interview call through reference. The Hr setup a zoom video interview for 1 hr . I prepared topics from computer architecture, microarchitecture, timing analaysis. The interviewer was pleasant and responded well when i gave the answers(which actually made me more confident). At the end I though I perfomed well but I was rejected. I got to know about the rejected through an automated reply from Jobvite and not through the HR.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Introduced myself first.
what is metastability? setup time hold time , how to avoid those? How does the threshold voltage and fanout impact setup and hold?
Design flow, what all do we need to know to design a code in verilog,
Synchronous FIFO,
how to design a memory,
Cache coherancy and the cache coherance method.
how to design a pipeline architecture, what components are present in each stages and how to design those.
Hazards and ways to avoid those,
Branch prediction techniques,
Projects on my resume