I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Longmont, CO) in Mar 2015
Interview
My first interview was a phone interview. Lync meeting. The interviewer was low-key, and asked questions that started easy but got progressively harder.
The in-person was out of state, so I was flow in. I had a 5 person interview, one after the other. While some of the interviews were certainly more personality focused, every interviewer (except for the lunch interview) had me write code on the board. I am an EE major, and so I had to study extensively for the interview, but it paid off.
My number one piece of advice is to study the basics you learned a long time ago. It's the fundamentals (for fresh out of University students) that they want to see.
Put only things on your resume that you can talk about in great detail.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Bit checking a 32 bit number, recursive searching of binary trees. Writing unit tests for simple code algorithms. After writing code, was asked to optimize it. All questions were C.
Also, they wanted details about my Sr. project (which was FW for an embedded system).
Interview was straight forward embedded questions . Covered 5 technical rounds. 2 - 1 hour and 3 half an hour .Covered basics of embedded C, memory management, code DMA driver, Implement malloc, implement an atoi function. Bit manipulation, reverse bytes in a word.
I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Oregon City, OR)
Interview
Three rounds. One general interview with questions to the CV and two technical with different engineers that asked technical questions. Overall fair and appropriate interview. Also team has been introduced I would work with.
I recently went through the Intel interview process, and it was quite structured yet rigorous. It all started with an online application where I submitted my resume and answered some basic screening questions about my background and experience. A few days later, I received an email from a recruiter scheduling an initial phone screen, which was mostly about my resume, skills, and why I wanted to work at Intel.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about specifics of the projects I did
Firmware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Intel Corporation with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 77% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Firmware Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 27 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 Firmware Engineer according to 27 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
Skills test: 16%
One on one interview: 12%
Presentation: 12%
Group panel interview: 11%
Personality test: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Background check: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Other: 2%
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