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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Folsom, CA (took a day)
they are interested in my background. And I was asked a lot on what I was doing. Some coding questions. Some are personal relationship questions. The intervew process took almost a full day.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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GFX Validation Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Sep 2, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Folsom, CA (took 2 weeks)
The phone interview consisted of basic questions related to software - such as C/C++. After the phone interview they had me implement a small project in C. Following the project completion I was asked to come on-site for an interview. There were about 30 of us interviewing and it was pretty intense. 4 1-hour sessions with mostly skills tests. Refresh on everything before you go!
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Component Design Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Aug 26, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Folsom, CA (took a day)
Phone interview lasted for 1 hour. Questions were as follows: derive equation from FSM, K-maps, equation reduction using De-morgans law,pipelining and hazards, inverter working, how Vth varied with temp, SRAM working. 2 weeks later was called for onsite interview. Consisted of 4 rounds.
1st round: questions related to system verilog, projects, design FSM from waveforms and conditions given. C code for converting binary to octal.
2nd round: Given a black box and some conditions and asked to design a digital system. Design FF's. Given verilog code and asked to design gate level diagram.
3rd round: Questions related to computer architecture. Asked project related questions.Cache write policies, write back, write through, PCI,PCI-E, arbitration, how to get faster circuits, latest INTEL chipset architecture. Remember all the questions were indirect.Logical questions.
4th round: Timing analysis. Slew, fanout, design flow, setup and hold circuit analysis. Circuit analysis. All questions were logical,none direct.
Hope this helps!!
All the interviewer's were friendly and co-operative. It was basically like a discussion rather than question and answer session.
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No negotiation since RCG position
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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ASIC Design Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Aug 13, 2011 — 0 of 2 people found this helpful
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2.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Folsom, CA (took 2+ weeks)
I was contacted by email for phone interview for a senior ASIC Design Engineer position. The phone interview went alright (took place for about an hour and 20 mins). The interviewer was nice and asked me many technical questions which I answered. At the end of the interview he asked me when I can appear for an on-site interview.
So.. I went for an on-site interview about 10 days later. This on-site interview process was the part that seemed very strange (and also not right) to me. It turned out that they call a whole bunch of candidates for interview on the same day. There are two batches of interviewees - morning and afternoon. I was selected for the morning batch (starts at 9am). The first half hour was a presentation about the group. It had all the candidates sitting together. Now most of these candidates were RCGs. I think I was the only senior level person in that group. After that the interviewees had 4 rounds of interviews, each for 45 mins. I was very surprised that every single of those 4 interviews for me were conducted by VERIFICATION (not DESIGN) engineers and most questions were on verification. The questions were not difficult enough. It seemed to me that those questions were prepared with the RCGs in mind. I had no problem in answering them. In any case, all the interviewers were nice and friendly. However, every single one of them asked me what kind of position I am interested in - design or verification. Now, my resume said very clearly that I am a design engineer and looking for similar position - so I didn't really understand the reason for ambiguity.
After the technical interviews were over at noon, the candidates had to come back to the same conference room. We were told to help ourselves for lunch with some food that was waiting for us in the same room. No going out for lunch or anything. The food (very few items, I could just have salad and breads) was poor. Never before have I seen a company doing this to interview candidates. The whole setup seemed very unprofessional. What is even more ridiculous is that I did not even get to meet the hiring manager for the position. Come on... what is the point of an on-site interview then?
About 3 business days later I got an email that I was not selected. I was a bit disappointed because I don't think I did badly in the interviews, however I wouldn't call it a huge surprise either going by the unprofessional and wrong interview process. When I am not even questioned on the area of work for the opening, that certainly raises questions about the fairness and credibility of the interview and selection process.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Component Design Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Aug 2, 2011
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2.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Folsom, CA (took 1 week)
How to remove setup and hold time violations?
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Jul 12, 2011
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Folsom, CA (took a day)
I applied online, and one day I got an email from a team member requesting for phone interview (for a different position). We scheduled it after 2 days. It was good, the interviewer was very friendly, and was speaking very nicely...he asked me simple questions....and few algorithmic ques(bcoz I put on my resume that I was T.A for algos)....I was very nervous, bcoz it was my first interview and wid such a gud company. So, I cudn't ans properly. Anyway, be prepared for sum basics including sum debugging basics & ques on ur resume.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Component Design Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Folsom, CA (took a day)
I got a mail from the hiring manager and fixed the date of the interview a couple of days later. The position was supposed to be for a validation engineer position I suppose but was termed as component design engineer as most of the jobs in Intel are termed that way. It was a 1 hr long interview and I was asked pretty much most of the basics from Computer Architecture like Caches, Pipelining and details, questions regarding my project etc; Logic Design like Counters, Pattern detector FSM, flipflops latches difference and specifically DFF design; VLSI design like inverter characteristics, 2 input nand design and sizing, dynamic gates, dominos, pass transistor Mux design.
Some questions which caught me off guard were: What is polling, what are bus protocols, how do you handle interrupts, components of motherboard, what are chipsets etc.
Overall experience was good, if you have your basics right then it should be a cakewalk. Goodluck!
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Product Development Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Folsom, CA (took 2 days)
Interview Process Started off with a phone interview in late April.
Interviewer asked a series questions on
1: DFT Techniques
2: PERL/TK
3: PCI Express
I was able to answer all questions satisfactorily.
I was shortlisted for FM Rush Interviews in Early June.
The Interview consisted of 3 rounds of technical questions and behavioral from Senior Technical staff.
First round basically consisted of DFT Basics and How I can perform SCAN techniques on different chips and some behavioral questions.
Second Round consisted of technical questions related to various lab bench testing devices like Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers and Functional waveform generators. The interviewer also asked some questions on various projects I have done in my Master's relating to the use of lab equipment and a few questions regarding Jitter an eye patterns were asked.
Third Round concerned with device physics, basic circuit design questions and in-depth analysis of some of my projects was done.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Engineering Failure Analysis at Intel Corporation
Posted Jun 14, 2011
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Folsom, CA (took 4+ weeks)
First I had a phone interview with some general questions about circuits(like transistor, op amps) and then some question on testing of circuits and oscilloscopes. After abt a week I got a call saying that I was selected for an onsite interview. The on site consisted of four rounds with three technical rounds and the last one was behavioural. I guess I did not do well in one of the technical rounds. After 2 weeks I was rejected for the job.
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Entry Level Software Engineer In Intel's GPU Group at Intel Corporation
Posted Jun 14, 2011
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Folsom, CA (took 4+ weeks)
I had applied in Intel several times since December 2010 and finally got an email requesting a phone interview on 13 June 2011 :)
The interviewer(I'll call him X) called right on time. He began by describing his position and job profile at Intel, Intel's Folsom office. Then he gave a description of the job and the requirements, qualifications etc. He then asked about my availability date, and if I was ready to relocate. All this took close to 15 minutes. Now the actual interview questions.....lots of questions were asked and most of them were quite simple
1.How do you make sure a prog runs on both windpows and linux
Ans- Couldnt answer this one, I was thinking in a totally different direction....Use ifdef for win32 in the preprocessor directives
2. Asked if I knew about difference between release builds and debug builds.
I hadnt and he explained it to me
3. If you cant use breakpoints how do you debug a piece of code?
My answer: Print statements( he agreed to my reply...i was surprised :) )
4.C++ concepts like virtual function, pure virtual function, operator overloading, inline function
5. Describe how to swap 2 numbers?
My answer: use temp variable or XOR
6. count number of nodes in singley LL?
My answer: just count till next points to NULL.
7. What data structure would you use to store a directory?
I said a Binary tree or BST, He suggested a Hash Map. He had mentioned there would be randon insert and deletes which i kind of overlooked while thinking of the question. I said BST since I thought directory data would be sorted.
8.count number of set bits in a given integer?
My answer: & with 1 then divide by 2 or right shift
9.How do you handle seg faults?
My answer- I said I use gdb or Valgrind. He said Valgrind is many times used for memory leaks. He then asked if I knew what memory leaks are and I told him, basically we assign some memory using NEW and never DELETE it, even after the program is over.
I think there were few other questions but I cant seem to recall all of it!
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