I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Intel Corporation in Nov 2013
Interview
Only got through 1st round -
1st round was a campus interview
2 - 30 minute interviews -- the second one ran super long (50 minutes)
Interviews were very technical -- very few behavioral questions and basically zero questions relating to your interest in Intel or the industry or why you are even sitting in the interview!
One interview was about finance and even some supply chain technical questions straight off a piece of paper.
The second interview was a business case that used some off the concepts talked about in the previous interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you had to convince your manager to make an investment of $1 M and there is no room in the budget - how would you do so?
Who would you approach with a new idea? A manager, an colleague?
How do you decide whether a project is worth it?
What is the WACC? When does a company use this?
How do you calculate the cost of equity?
Would you capitalize an investment as an expense or treat it as an asset?
What is the difference between the 3 financial statements? Please go through each of them and talk me through how they are connected.
What is the competitive landscape of Intel?
If I make an investment of say $ 1 M, walk me through how this affects all the statements.
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Albuquerque, NM) in Mar 2013
Interview
Initial communication was at the University information session. They liked my resume and offered me an on-campus interview which went well. Asked me some basic questions regarding my PhD work and why I want to work for Intel. Next was a phone interview after a couple of months for about an hour. Here too, some similar questions were asked regarding my PhD work, and also an explanation regarding the type of work at Intel was given. After a couple of weeks, they offered to fly me out for an onsite interview. This was a whole day process including PhD thesis presentations, several one-on-one interviews, and HR questions. Offer was given after a month of the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What kind of safety measures did you take in your lab while conducting experiments?
Do you know what the Benedict-Webb-Rubin equation of state is?
Have you used the Navier-Stokes equation? Where did you use it in your research?
What statistical analysis tools did you use for your research?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Danzig) in Sep 2010
Interview
Mostly technical interview. Some managers as well as engineers asking questions on me, my background, experience, salary expectations. Technical questions, mostly C/C++ and object programming oriented. Simple English language check. Easy interview for someone with software programming experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One unexpected logical-mathemathics question. Easy to answer if you think about it (so checking reasoning ability)