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Job Search Year/Season: 2021 (Oct-Dec)
Highest current education level: Master's
Job Source: Online Application - Technical Phone Interview & Video Interview
Interview Experience: π Neutral
Interview Difficulty: π Easy
Interview Result: Other
Just finished the interview.
Andreas Sembrant, he didn't even have his camera on, so I'm guessing he's Indian. He was probably randomly selected, not a team lead.
It started with writing a code to find elements in a C++ vector, then he asked how to optimize a very large vector (millions).
My answer was to break it down into chunks and run it on the GPU. Related knowledge points: parallel computing and GPU architecture,
Amdahl's Law,
MIPS, RISC, 5-stage pipeline basics,
TLB, caching, memory-related knowledge: explain what TLB is, how virtual memory maps to physical memory, whether TLB is before or
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