I had a technical phone interview with one of the engineers from the hardware team. The conversation lasted about 40 minutes, with roughly 5 minutes at the beginning going through my resume and previous project experience. After that, they jumped into technical questions focused on digital design and system-level architecture. The interviewer emphasized real hardware challenges like signal synchronization across different clock domains, and design trade-offs when implementing advanced CPU features such as out-of-order execution. The session was fairly interactive — they expected not only direct answers, but also reasoning about design choices, potential pitfalls, and how to verify such systems. Overall, it was more like an in-depth design discussion than a quiz-style interview.