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Process Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Sep 8, 2011
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Hillsboro, OR (took 2 weeks)
My friend referred me this job and I was contacted within one week to arrange for 1 hr phone interview. The interview consist of job description, details on resume, and Case scenario question. Then I got an on-site interview. It's a whole day interview. I haven't heard back after 2 weeks.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Process Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Sep 6, 2011
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4.0
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Hillsboro, OR (took 8 months)
I submitted my resume through the campus career program last year. After couple of follow-up emails I got an opportunity for Phone Interview. It lasted for 30 to 40 mins with questions purely from resume and the same day I have been informed about the onsite interview. It's a day long interview with 1 hr presentation and more than eight 1:1 interviews. The questions were again mostly based on my resume and some behavioral questions. Within a week I was contacted about the offer.
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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 Presentation.
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Senior Process Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Aug 19, 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 Jul 2011 in Hillsboro, OR (took 1 week)
Applied online. Got an a e mail a few days later to set up the phone interview time. This was ~1hr phone interview, very technical, nothing like a common preliminary interview. The interviewer went straight to questions about research, and technical details on methods and instrumentation.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Ramp Operations Manager at Intel Corporation
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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2.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Portland, OR (took a day)
I was contacted about a month after submitting my application online. Phone interview was pretty easy, just asked behavioral questions like hard situations, examples of leadership etc. I was also offered an onsite interivew, but do to circumstances I'm not able to do the interview until October. Person seemed very understanding of my situation (leaving the country for a month and a half). Overall good experience, will update later when I get the in person interview.
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CAD Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Aug 13, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Hillsboro, OR (took 2 days)
I was interviewed as an experienced candidate and the interviewers were fully conscious of my experience level. At times they were even surprised at the depth of understanding I have of various things.
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I was interviewing at a time when the industry was in recession. Negotiation was almost impossible. If I didn't take their offer, I was left with one other offer that was not much better.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Process Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Aug 4, 2011 — 2 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 Aug 2011 in Hillsboro, OR (took 6 days)
Applied online. Received email for scheduling the interview in less than a weeks time. The next day, I had the telephonic interview for 1 hr 7 min. I felt I did the interview well. Interviewer got back to me next day. I have not been considered for the position. I was not able to understand, what exactly they were looking for.
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1) Did you apply for this position and do you know the responsibilities of this position ?
2) Why did you choose USA for your higher education ?
3) Why Intel ?
4) Technical challenges in your current research?
5) What are the challenges that you faced in your team?
6) Question on troubleshooting, real life scenario as an example given by the interviewer (major time of the interview was based on this)
7) Can you work odd hours ?
8) What is your weakness ?
Interview took place for 1 hour 7 minutes. I felt that I performed well.
Interviewer said that he will get back to me in one weeks time.
I followed up with a thank you note email.
Next day I got reply saying that I have not been considered for the post
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Process Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Aug 9, 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 Jun 2011 in Hillsboro, OR (took a day)
Phone interview was good. Invited to onsite interview. Talked to managers and the interview went well. They asked about my phd work.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Test Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Jul 28, 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 Mar 2011 in Hillsboro, OR (took a day)
Interview consisted of phone screening initially. Phone interview was for one hour on basic logic questions from a software engineer and some questions on my projects from hardware engineer.
Hiring manager sent me a follow up email for on site interview. On-site interview lasted all day long.
3 interviews on FPGA and logic with hardware engineers
2 interview on C/logic with software engineers
lunch/behavioral interview with hiring managers
It was all straight forward. They showed me the lab and some of the cool things they were working on.
I haven't heard anything back from the hiring manager yet. I will update as soon as he gets back to me
some of the questions were
software questions:
1. Intel memory hierarchy
2. Function to find a minimum of 3 numbers in C
3.Finding how many '1' are in a decimal number, implementing the same with recursion
4. difference between stack and queue
5. difference between call by value and call by reference
6. static and global variables
FPGA/logic questions:
1. Divide by 3 counter
2. impedance mismatching problem
3. How to partition ground and voltage planes on a PCB
4. Few state machine problems
5. different clock domains
6. set up and hold time violations and how to eliminate them
7. writing a simple VHDL code
and many more question on FPGA, logic and PCB.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Signal Integrity Engineer, Serial Interconnects, DDRx at Intel Corporation
Posted Jul 25, 2011
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4.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Hillsboro, OR (took a day)
It all started out with a phone interview with the hiring manager of the group. The second phone interview was mainly technical topics to gauge my level of expertise on a wide variety of topics, in general Signal Integrity topics, S parameters, overshoot, undershoot, timing, some statistical analysis.
Next was the offer for an onsite interview in Hillsboro with the team which was set up for July 18th, 2011. The process was very easy; call American Express travel, set up the flight, hotel, car. Intel also mails a prepaid Visas for incidental expenses before, during, and after the actual interview. I flew in July 17th (Sunday), chilled out for a day, and the onsite started promptly at 9:00AM Monday morning.
The interview consisted of 6 hours of techical topics and a one hour lunch with the hiring manager which was more of a behavioral/personality type of session. The first 5 technical interviewers, many of whom had a masters, and some possibly PHD, was very thorough and deep and consisted of a variety of topics, some only peripherally related to the Signal Integrity position. The interview took place in one conference room with a large whiteboard available, which I filled completely with drawings, equations, etc. 6 times.
I also think part of the psychology in the interview is little things like the first interviewer being late to pick me up and a last minute substitute for one of the interviewers that was a PCIe timing/clock guru. His questions were the most difficult due to lack of significant experience in that particular area.
Questions included:
1. S Parameters, S Parameters, Also, one of the guys pulled out Z parameters, just for fun
2. Jitter spectrum
3. PLL Bandwidth in a PCIe clock recovery circuity
4. FEXT and NEXT
5. Power plane noise and decoupling
6. Draw a CMOS inverter and explain why the driving high/low impedances are different
7. PCIe common clock architecture and why there's a 12ns delta between the common clock to the transmitter and the total length of the receiver common clock plus the TX lane length
8. General questions on some of the projects I have worked on, board design, simulations, measurements, etc.
9. This was a good one. A differential pair is routed as a microstrip and the weave of the FR4 causes the er on one of the signals in the pair to vary a lot from the other member of the pair (think egregious, 3.4 on one, 4.5 on the other). What effects can you expect and what can you do to mitigate. Great question.
Then the oddball question, which Intel, Google, etc tosses out to gain insight into your thought process. My question was: How many full time piano tuners work in Seattle?
My advice to prospective interviewees; brush up on all of your basics, get the job description and polish your presentation on all of the skills required. My impression was that you don't have to know everything about every question, but they want to make sure you have at least a fair depth of knowledge and experience in the main job requirement areas. Above all things, don't try to bluff your way through a topic that you don't know about; just say you don't know because if you're trying to BS your way through it, they'll figure that out immediately. And if you don't understand a question, ask for more details.
And don't be too nervous; everyone was very friendly and very professional. Dress code is business casual but I saw many Intel employees with shorts, tee shirts. It's pretty laid back dress code wise however during the interview, I'd recommend you spiff up somewhat to at least shirt and dockers, a tie wouldn't hurt.
The reason I didn't get an offer, which the hiring manager graciously shared with me, was that most of the interviewers felt I did a good to great job on the various topics during the interviews and I had a wide breadth of valuable experience on the topics discussed, but I didn't have the depth of experience and knowledge that they were seeking for the position advertised.
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Shift Manager at Intel Corporation
Posted Jul 22, 2011
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Hillsboro, OR (took 5 days)
Had 2 pre screen phone interviews, then 1;1 with 3 Managers and then the VP. Very nice interview, was made to feel comfortable.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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