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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Feb 11, 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 Mar 2011 in Portland, OR (took a day)
Manager of a group found my resume in their website. Contacted me to schedule a phone interview.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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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 Dec 2011 in Chandler, AZ (took a day)
I had an interview with the STTD team at Intel. It was a four round interview for the software+hardware engineer position. The team sort of involves the employee in lab work and software development jobs. they asked me questions on comp architecture, OS, software development and simple circuit analysis, C++.
Circuit analysis - With a simple resistor, ammeter and diode - was asked to check if the diode is forward biased
Comp architecture - Virtual memory, difference between RAM and ROM, advantages and disadvantages, caches, levels of caches, what is the whole point of so many levels of cache, cache coherency
OS - how do process communicate, multithreading and multiprocessing differences
C++ - pointers, references, object-oriented concepts
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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Dec 20, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 3 weeks)
Very professional, good questions
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TIming
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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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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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Sep 11, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took 2 weeks)
My application process began with a few managers coming to my university to give a presentation about the company. I left my resume with them and a week later i got an email that they would like to conduct a phone interview with me. The entire process consisted of a phone interview, progamming assignment, and finally an in person interview.
Phone Interview:
My reviewer called me up and gave me a variety of questions ranging from standard software topics like data structures; hardware topics, like how an interrupt works; and standard cs math like converting to hex etc..
Programming assignment
After i completed the interview, I got a call back from another manager, with a relatively simple programming assignment that i was to complete by the next day. The assignment should only take a couple hours at most.
In person:
finally, a couple weeks later I was flown out to the company where i had 4 1 hour interviews, with a lunch break half way through. The interviews each had a specific theme, software, hardware, testing and design, and behavioral. None of the tests were particularly challenging, but as always, they are much harder on the spot. Most of the tester's made an effort to not react to any of the answers given during the interview, so it's hard to tell how successful you were until its over.
The facilities were very nice, aside from workstations being small cubicles. During lunch while talking with the managers, i got the sense that there was a genuinely good work culture at the company, and that Intel was a very family friendly company, despite some of the criticism I had heard about on other websites.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, a Skills 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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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Aug 8, 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 Apr 2011 (took 3 months)
It consisted of 3 phone interviews and about 30 e-mail exchanges. There was a puzzle like vague question, other than they were basic questions.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted Jul 26, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Phoenix, AZ (took 4+ weeks)
I got an email requesting an interview. The interview went good, it was all technical. However, I didn't receive an offer.
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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted May 21, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Hillsboro, OR (took 4+ weeks)
Was initially contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn and set in my resume.
Several weeks later was contacted by Intel for a phone interview. The interview was scheduled for the following Monday. It consisted of some very basic questions about programming and software engineering as well as some behavioral questions.
The interviewer's manager called me later that day for a follow up interview and the day after that (Tuesday) they scheduled me for a full day on-site interview for that Thursday.
The on-site interview consisted of eight one hour interviews, one of them over lunch. They asked a lot of technical questions about a variety of topics, many behavioral questions, and I covered the whiteboard in the conference room with code several times.
I have been selected, but the HR manager has been out for the week and will be contacting me on Monday to present an offer.
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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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Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Posted May 11, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Portland, OR (took a day)
Started with a phone interview with hiring manager (the manager I will work for).
Then, phone interview with one of the team members.
They then flew me out and I had one full day of interviews. Unlike interviews I had at other tech companies, this interview focused more on your background and the specific skills required for this job. Algorithmic and oddball questions were rare. Most of the questions were on knowledge of c# and c languages and some data structure questions. This may not be the same for other interviews though. I was also a college recruit.
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My manager was very supportive during negotiation. The HR person didn't sound like they were gonna be able to match what I had asked but my manager got involved and in the end, I came out with a very good offer.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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