Senior Software 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 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 38 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 38 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 23%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 12%
Skills test: 12%
Background check: 10%
Presentation: 9%
Personality test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Portland, OR)
Interview
1 Phone Screen by Hiring Manager
3 Technical Phone Screens from Engineers
All day on-site interview (1 Presentation, 1 lunch interview with Hiring Manager, 8 1:1 interviews with engineers)
Phone Screens were quite technical in nature, asked questions on Applied Mathematics, C++, PhD expertise, Chemical Engineering, etc.
Lunch interview with Hiring Manager was tricky with all sorts of behavioral questions aimed at judging personality, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was mostly asked interview questions about my PhD, and how I would apply them to the job under consideration.
Phone call interview about basics of Algorithm, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems. Mostly on bit manipulation, memory management, process scheduling, threads, mutex, semaphores, locking mechanisms, IOMMU, instruction pipeline, Direct Memory Access.
I interviewed at Intel Corporation (California, MD)
Interview
1. First an HR person called me and scheduled an interview
2. There were 4 persons on the interview panel and asked about the OOP
I got some question correct and some wrong. Did not got an offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Several questions about classes and objects in C++.
2. Inheritance
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Bayan Lepas) in Aug 2025
Interview
Interview was scheduled 10 days after sending application. 3 interviewers, only one of them were local. Basic programming questions, only theory no coding involved, behavioral questions was asked. They have also asked to explain the experience doing projects related to those skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions like, what was the biggest challenge you have faced while working