Intel Corporation Interview Questions & Reviews in Santa Clara, CA
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Updated Feb 7, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Legal at Intel Corporation
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 in Santa Clara, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Phone call, 1:1 in person, and then a round of in person interviews. Very interesting, cutting edge work. The position changed in scope over time. I was led to believe that I would get the job, and then did not, due to the changed scope. The people were very nice, professional, laid back. The atmosphere was cold. Labyrinths of of drab cubicles, lots of Lenovo ThinkPads, limited facilities for food, beverages or snacks. Seemed like the building would be a tough place for a creative person to work. It was very different from a typical Silicon Valley startup (ironic, since Intel is the ultimate Silicon Valley success story).
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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 Group/Panel Interview.
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Contract Software Engineering Position at Intel Corporation
Posted Dec 10, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
This was an on-site interview for a 6-month contract position. My resume had been forwarded by a recruiter. Although a contract position was not my primary objective, I wanted to get more practice interviewing and to see if the interviewing/hiring process for a temporary position would be different. The hiring manager came to fetch me in the lobby and apparently expected someone different as he had to ask the person at reception to point me out. We went to a small interview room, where he started asking me about my experience while reviewing my resume on his laptop. He soon cut me short to try to find group members to interview me, who arrived after a few minutes, upon which the hiring manager left. One of the two interviewers started with questions to determine better which level of the software stack I had been programming at, asked me for a block diagram, asked me to describe some of the APIs exported by the system I had worked with, etc. The interviewer tended to change the question midway through my answer, and this went on and on. He seemed impatient with the pace of my answers. The other engineer was reading from her laptop (my resume? her email?). After some minutes of being bombarded with questions without being able to answer any of them to completion, I paused and said maybe we should stop the interview. At that point, the questioner backed off a bit and his companion took over. We did some white board programming. They answered the few questions I had and left, whereupon the hiring manager returned and gave me a final white-board programming problem. Soon he was done and escorted me back to the entrance. The white-board programming questions were not too bad, but overall the experience was dreadful because of the way I was bombarded with questions by the one interviewer. Besides that, they were visibly not interested in me as a candidate. In my opinion they conveyed a terrible impression of the company. Furthermore, the layout of the building was unappealing: white walls, narrow hallways, small rooms. A nightmare that left me feeling trashed afterwards for the rest of the day.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Sep 16, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2 weeks)
Hr Screen on phone.
Phone interview by Manager.
Followed by onsite interview with three to four collegues.
Followed by HR call and Salary Negotiation and final offer
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Please not to be desparate in accepting the job and you will loose the negotiation chance.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2 weeks)
Contacted by a recruiter, talked for 5 minutes about general stuff... my interests, what the position is about, the group at Intel. A week later I was notified that they would like me for an on-site interview in a week. At the on-site interview I met with 7 people during one morning... 8am-12pm.
This being a Software Engineering position I expected at least some technical questions, but I received none! The only technical question was one casual "can you code?". To which I replied yes of course. Every interviewer asked me what I did for my PhD and we generally talked about my work. It seems that the most important thing for them was to determine whether I'll be a good fit with my vision, interests and prior experience. I would say personality is definitely another thing they look for even though you may not notice it.
People in this group seemed pretty young and open minded... especially the group leader (boss). The position in itself wasn't really the "code in the trenches" kind and it has quite a bit of flexibility and requires creativity and novel approaches. Perhaps that's why they were more interested in the vision and interests than coding.
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Although they couldn't up-front the relocation expenses, they did offer a hiring bonus.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Graduate Intern Technical at Intel Corporation
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
I was contacted by my prospective boss via e-mail within a week or so of responding to a solicitation for a specific internship on Intel's website, and we arranged a phone interview for later in the week.
He was fairly punctual about calling me and was easy to talk to. The interview wasn't what I expected -- no technical questions were asked, he started immediately with asking me if I had any questions, and so I proceeded to ask some things about what kind of environment I would be working in, what the surrounding area is like, and what kind of work I would be doing. He was reluctant to tell me the actual nature of the project, so I didn't press it. He asked me a few questions along the way, such as what my future ambitions were. All told, it was about an hour.
I heard back from him via e-mail a little less than two months later asking if I had any plans for the summer yet and that he had tentatively chosen someone that had done their graduate research in the exact area of the job (what are the odds, but then again, it's Intel) but was checking in on me as an alternate. I had already accepted another offer by that point, though.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Product Manager at Intel Corporation
Posted Jun 22, 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 Feb 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
Headed to HQ for face2face interview. Three consecutive interviews were conducted by one product manager, one VP, and one product marketing manager.
Interview processes are similar: half behavioral questions and half professional questions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Director at Intel Corporation
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2 months)
First, recruiter recommendation plus resume revisions. Second, a phone interviews and in formal meetings. Third, on site interview with internal team members and the main contact.
The company seems to be driven to promote from the inside, which is both a plus and a minus. Coming in as a lateral, it seemed as though I would have faced large hurdles I was forewarned of the company's general siloing, and institutional patterns that make it perhaps difficult to change. I enjoyed the idea of working with smart people, but did not relish that if they had well-established turfs that they were defending.
I did not pursue this opportunity very hard the further I was exposed to the environment, and that was obviously noted.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Pre-Si Verification Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
Had a phone interview with a verification engineer from intel, santa clara. The position was with servers group, so the questions were mostly on computer architecture like basic cache concepts, multilevel cache and cache coherence protocols. He also asked a few questions on pipelining. He then asked me to explain a few of my projects related to computer architecture. This was for the first 50 minutes. Then he started asking me questions on C++, algorithms, data structures and PERL. The entire interivew was for 1 hour and 30 mins.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Mar 22, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Mar 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2 weeks)
I applied online and about 3 weeks later received an email requesting a phone interview. The phone interview was basically the manager talking about the position and asking some questions about my background and a few technical questions; this phone interview lasted about 30 minutes. I was immediately invited to do two technical phone interviews with team members, which I did the next day. The first technical phone interview was only about 25 minutes, and I was asked mostly general (although fairly difficult) C++ questions. The second technical phone interview was about 1 hour and was almost entirely architecture questions, several of which went quite in depth. About 2 hours later I was invited for an on-site interview.
About 2 weeks later I went to Santa Clara for the on-site interview. They flew me down on a Sunday, the interview was on Monday, and I left on Tuesday. The interview was about 5 hours. My first 1:1 interview was an hour long with a team member, and he mostly asked about various C++ and OOP topics. The second 1:1 interview was also an hour and mostly involved me writing code (C and assembly) on paper to solve a few problems. Next I had a half hour interview with the manager, who asked a few technical questions, but mostly told me about the benefits. Then was a 1:30 hour lunch with the team. After that I had a one hour discussion with a team member, which was fairly casual conversation about the position and team and area (no hard or technical questions). Finally I had another half hour interview with the manager and he mostly told me about what they were looking for and I tried to sell myself.
I was told t hey would let me know within one week. A week later I got a phone interview from HR offering me the position.
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Negotiation Details
I did not attempt to negotiate the offer. The total compensation was pretty good, and I felt it would be difficult to negotiate for an entry level job.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Engineering Intern at Intel Corporation
Posted Mar 21, 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 Mar 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2 days)
2 separate phone conversation. The first was with the engineering manager, 2nd was with an engineer in the group. Many technical questions were asked, but the 2nd person asked almost all the same questions as the first. The second interview seemed a bit pushy and more in-depth, but I think that's because I was getting the difficult questions right and he wanted to see how far I could go
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No negotiation for intern positions
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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