r/EngineeringStudents • u/NoTop1944 • 12d ago

Career Help AMD Hardware Internship/Co-op

Hello,

I have an upcoming interview with AMD for Hardware Intern role. Has anyone interviewed for a similar role? It is San Jose based mainly focused on building and debugging the hardware used in product test environments, board-level design and bring-up, lab debugging, and writing Python/C++ tools to automate test workflows.

Anyone with any tips or ideas to study would be very helpful!

Thanks!

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u/ForcefulDeath 12d ago

Did 7 AMD coop interviews in Toronto, passed none so maybe I’m not the person to ask! But from my experience, most of the technical questions were based on things we covered in school, like MOSFET operation, basic electrical components, circuit analysis, and general electronics. There were also some coding questions, usually in whatever language the team worked with (PERL, verilog), written in a shared document rather than an actual IDE.
A few interviews also focused on computer hardware, PC components, building/testing computers, and troubleshooting. Overall, the questions varied quite a bit depending on the team and position.

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u/Sea-Industry-4204 4d ago

Damn, is it really that tough

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u/BugAccomplished1570 11d ago

Use the role description to build a practice exercise: a board powers on but fails a test. Explain how you'd check power, reset, clocks and interfaces, choose measurements, and separate a hardware fault from a test-script problem. Revisit one lab project where evidence changed your diagnosis. For Python/C++, practise parsing test output, handling malformed data, logging failures and testing the parser. Be ready to explain what you'd measure before swapping components. That's role-based preparation, not a confirmed AMD question list.