The first portion of interviewing was two phone screenings with managers in the verification department. From there, I was recommended for an on-site interview.

This consisted of speaking with eight engineers over the course of the day. Most asked questions about programming background and basic problem-solving.

There were lots of very simple questions about processor architecture, like caches and pipelines. The question that comes up the most is, "How would you implement a test plan for this?" This was just trying to see how you would solve those kinds of problems.

Only one interviewer asked me anything specific: names or terms for constructs or devices specific to certain architectures. I feel these things are better left in a manual for looking up rather than purely memorized.

Regardless, I felt the interview was very easy and may not fully gauge a person's ability to do this kind of work.

Name all the bit fields in an x86 4KB PAE PTE.