Intel Corporation Interview Questions & Reviews in Oregon

Interview Details The position and hiring process was exclusive to recent college graduates through the university. The application was submitted through university system> I was notified a few days later that I was an invited for an interview at the expected date and time later that week. The interview process included two back-to-back 1-on-1 interviews with different recruiters. I was notified 2 weeks later through the university system that I would not be invited for a second interview.

Interview Details This lady that interviewed me was a very nice lady. She first started the interview asking me behavioral based questions such as, what are you strengths and weaknesses. I was able to answer those fairly easy. The technical questions came next. I was asked what type of analysis I would do to analyze a micron sized particle and the basis of the scanning electron microscopy. Overall, the interview lasted about 30 minutes.

Interview Details A manager came to our school to recruit graduate students for the process engineer position. I submitted my resume and got emailed about a 30-minute interview the next day. At the end of the interview, I was told I am going onsite. I came onsite a month later for whole day one-on-one interviews with an hour allotted for dissertation presentation. I honestly think this was among the easy interviews I had - almost no technical question, mostly about my work and experience with some behavioral questions. There was only one interviewer I remember that gave me "puzzles" to solve, but it was real life problems in the Intel fab. I was told that employees are expected to work ~60hrs/week with week-long on call rotations. Lunch with two of the employees gave me a chance to ask a lot of questions on how it's like working with Intel - they were very helpful. One of them told me that he really likes working there (coming in at 6am, having a long lunch and leaving at 5 is what he said). The other was transferred from another location and position, and told me that the previous position (design) was more enjoyable.

Reason for Declining – I had another job offer as a design engineer that I thought fits me better. The work hours, their offer package and the overall job description did not really compare to the other offer I had around the same time. I actually asked to delay turning in my decision to wait for that other offer and I had to decline a month after I received the offer. The offer came less than 2 weeks after my onsite interview. Ronler Acres is in such a beautiful town though.

Interview Details I submitted my resume online and was called by the end of the day by one of the members in the intern department. He said they were on a time crunch and has six candidates left to choose from, but my resume appeared better than others and he was wondering if I had time to interview before the end of the day. Luckily I only had one more class for the day, and accepted.

The "most difficult" question I was asked (probably because I'm a freshman) was given an array of 100 numbers in order (ie 1,2,3...,99,100) with 99 unique values and 1 duplicate value, how would I find the duplicate? I answered BST and then traverse the left or right child depending on what the root node was. He then asked me the big-Oh of it which is logn. I got a call from the original contact at Intel asking me to join them for the summer about twenty minutes after the phone interview.

Got an email the following week for me to consent to a background check and then the week after that I was formally given an offer.

Negotiation Details – No negotiation. I receive full benefits, free

Interview Details Received an email with a general call for resumes. I submitted mine and within a week I had a phone interview. The interview was in the typical STAR format. In my opinion, I did poorly because I did not prepare at all. After these questions, the interviewer asked one question about xray diffraction which was related to something that was on my resume.

Interview Details I was Contacted by AM for phone interview. Phone interview took 1 hr 30 mins. All behavioral questions initially then he gave an exaple of real life problem in Intel and ask me how would you approach the problem. Telephonic inteview went good and after a week I got an invitation for on-site interview. on-site started at 9 am and ended at 4.30 pm. they asked me all technical questions and few puzzles and some more real life problem at Intel. My interview went well from my side but only reason I think I did not get an offer is because I was not asking lot of questions to interviewer. It is my advise to everyone to ask as many questions related to the job as you can.

Interview Details Recently started looking for jobs and had applied online to a few positions at intel. Got an email to schedule a phone interview. Basic questions asked during the phone interview. WHy intel, conflicts with coworkers, why did you choose to go to industry v/s academia. I had to BS a lot.. got an email next day saying they wanted me onsite. Onsite was 8 back to back interviews with 1 HR interview abt the benefits and stuff. 2 guys from the 8 were really depressed. One guy even told me that the work life balance in Intel is non-existent (not that I had not heard it before but didnt expect the current employees to themself openly say so). Learnt during the interview that I have to be on call 24x5 (the 5 days that I am working) and should also be available on the weekends to do any emergency work (no extra pay for that). It didnt sound good to me. Why did I do a phd? to do something with my brain and not be a manual laborer. Finally, interview got over and after 3 weeks,the manager contacted me asking if I was willing to take the offer. I replied back saying I need 4 weeks to decide since I have other interviews - basically I wanted to explore other options and had recieved some emails expressing interest in my skills from other companies. THe intel manager said that I have 1 week to decide and if I do not communicate, I will not be considered. I was kinda annoyed by the way these guys treat new hiries.. I shot back a mail saying that I was looking for something that requires me to think and not just do manual labor... never heard back from the manager.. lol.. i could care less.. I have an offer from another company now. Guys, it takes time to geta job.. It took me 8months and 17days before I got one but this is how it is. Its not the dot com era where ppl got a job in 8 mins..lol.. so understand that and be selective. Intel really sucks.. its depressing to say the least.. ppl look overworked, harassed, tired.. I do not want my life to be miserable!!

Reason for Declining – I am not looking for a manual laborer position which needs me to work for 60 to 80 hrs per week - including being on call all night..

Interview Details Very flexible with me in interview scheduling. I was able to interview late in the day after my regular job. Multiple interview days, though. Also, very unclear which project I was interviewing for. Constant internal reorgs. Nobody seemed really happy working there.

Reason for Declining – More exciting opportunities with better defined requirements and compensation elsewhere in the area.

Interview Details The intel interview process usually starts with a phone-screen, where you are asked basic computer architecture questions and your thoughts on how to test the functions of a piece of silicon.
For example, how would you test an ALU?
After a positive phone interview, you will likely be flown on-site to the location where you will be working.
The interview typically lasts 4-6hrs including lunch. You will be interviewed by 4-5 people, and will get to casually chat with the people you eat lunch with.
Typically your interview will consist of the following topics:

Introduction / Tell me about yourself
Computer Architecture / Intel System Architecture
Software
Behavioral

The interviewers at Intel aren't looking that you get every answer right, they are looking to see if you can learn, are willing to learn, and what your attitude towards other people are.
The office environment really depends on the teams that you join in to.
One team may be very interactive - people dropping into your cube and chatting, or completely hands off, where everyone emails or IMs you or leaves you to your own devices.

As a System Validation Engineer you're expected to get the job done, your time is flexible and granted, as long as you meet your deliverables.

Negotiation Details – An offer letter is delivered. Room for negotiation is there in the base salary, and I advise to negotiate hard up front, as the raise/promotion period in April may not yield satisfactory results even if you have been working really hard that year.