I applied in-person. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Zapopan) in Mar 2016
Interview
There were 2 interviews, one by phone and the other at the office, engineers were willing to ask me about myself, my projects and my tecnical knowledge, everything you learn in school is important for them. It was more than 1 hour of interview, best interview I have ever had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Personal Questions:
How will you solve missing a milestone for a project?
Why are you a better candidate for this job than the others?
What have been your worst mistake (school or work project) and how did you compensated, or solved it?
Which was your most dificult subject at school and why?
Techinal Questions:
Difference between C and C++?
What is a dictionary in Phyton?
What is the difference between a flip flop and a latch?
What is an static class in java?
What is polymorphism in OOP?
HDL design problems.
Digital Circuit design problems.
C programation problems.
Differences between a class and a structure?
Memory syncronization problems.
Logic questions:
You have 3 sacks full of coins but 1 of them contains fake ones that look exactly the same but weight .1 g less than real ones, you only have 1 chance to weight them, how do you know which sack contains the fake ones?
You again have 3 sacks, one is full of red balls, the other is full with black balls and the last one has both red and black balls; all of them are labeled for their contents but are labeled WRONG, what is the least amount of movements that arenecessary to label them correctly?
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Intel Corporation in Dec 2012
Interview
Phone interview only. Mostly all technical questions regarding both programming concepts and computer architecture details. Common themes are paging, logic gates, binary search algorithm, caching. After I got the offer, it required a background check but no drug test.
Hardware Validation applicants have rated the interview process at Intel Corporation with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Hardware Validation roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Intel Corporation overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Intel Corporation as a Hardware Validation according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Personality test: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Background check: 17%
Skills test: 17%
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