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Interview process
Architecture loops open with a resume-led hiring-manager round, then technical rounds that weight micro-architecture design and quantitative performance reasoning. Design and performance carry the most weight (~60% combined), often with numbers on the whiteboard.
5 roundsHiring manager round → Micro-architecture round → Performance & quantitative round …
Question bank by sub-domain
Pick a sub-domain to study leveled questions, each tagged with the companies that ask it.
Comp Arch
ISA
RISC vs CISC, encoding, addressing
0 questions
Comp Arch
Pipelining
Hazards, forwarding, stalls
2 questions
Comp Arch
Caches & Memory
Associativity, coherence entry, misses
2 questions
Comp Arch
Branch Prediction
BHT/BTB, mispredict penalty
0 questions
Comp Arch
OoO / Superscalar
Renaming, ROB, issue, retire
0 questions
Comp Arch
Coherence & Consistency
MESI, memory models, fences
1 question
Comp Arch
Virtual Memory
TLB, page tables, protection
1 question
Comp Arch
Performance
Amdahl, CPI, roofline
1 question
Comp Arch
Interconnect / NoC
Topologies, arbitration, deadlock
0 questions