mix of phone screening + in-person technical panel interviews. Phone screening is mainly behavioural questions, while technical questions are usually through whiteboard. Interviewers give some background and details about the position and the company, then jump into the interview questions, followed by Q&A session. Don't be afraid to ask questions if you are not sure about something!

Applied to AMD (Xilinx) for a Senior/Staff DV role. The overall experience was a complete let down, the hiring process does not match the big name reputation AMD is having. Round 1 is HR screening which was very quick and smooth. Round 2 is a take-home assignment with 3-day duration. And I had to wait for 1.5 months to get processed for round 3, which was still acceptable. Round 3 is technical session where I wrote code and then explained my solutions. The questions were very easy for senior perspective, and I think it's a one-way path where there was only 1 right answer. And these codes are overlap with the take-home assignment. However, I got ghosted for 2 months. Regardless many follow-up messages, nothing but silence. When I moved on with another offer, I sent a personal message to the interviewer telling him my decision. Only then I got informed that my solutions were "too much" and hence a rejection. A fellow of mine (who is 2y older) got selected for the role. He shared that the compensation was way bellow online surveys and national average. * To sum up my thoughts -> a waste of time: totally 4 months spent (1-2 months between rounds). Only SystemVerilog tested. I already completed the take-home but had to rewrite the codes in the interview. No leadership, no soft skills, no asking about previous impacts and achievements, just boring codes. -> low standard: AMD is a big name, so I thought expectations should be held high. But not with the team I'm joining. Getting rejected for "being too much" at a name like AMD is kinda unexpected. -> the hiring team should rework the input-level, go out side and see what's the market doing. Bland lines of coding and proving it gonna work does not make a staff/senior dv engineer, it's junior, and the pay is junior. But the JD stated Snr/Staff. Yikes! -> And the JD is actually recruiting juniors making me sickly personal.