I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Hillsboro, OR) in Aug 2013
Interview
I was contacted by a hiring manager by email and we set up an hr. long phone screen a week or so later. I was asked a bunch of questions about DRC methodology even though my expertise was in LVS. I was able to answer them fairly well though and was told I should get an invitation for an on site interview. It took a couple weeks but I got the interview and after a mild amount of confusion between me the hiring manager and the HR folks I got the date straightened around. They paid for the entire trip and booking it was easy and smooth.
The interview came around and was a round robin style with people in the department I'd be joining. I did not find it too difficult some of the job descriptions were about things that were not on my resume and they asked me briefly about those to see what I knew but did not press me and focused on discussing topics related to what was on my resume (physical verification and some scripting) or just general problem solving issues. It went pretty well and a few of the engineers were enthusiastic about me joining the team.
I got an offer about 3 weeks after the interview. (I got positive feed back from the hiring manager within a couple days though).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing really, some pros/cons of different physical verification tools, how to filter through 100k+ errors, how to solve chip level LVS issues. Should be easy for experience engineers to answer.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Hillsboro, OR) in Aug 2013
Interview
Initial interview- On campus for D1D really nice personable guy. Looked at every aspect of my resume. Called me on site. It was scheduled after a month this time for D1C.
On the day of the interview random people came to interview ,there was no schedule provided , no HR. Nothing was structured. The Area manager asked me a problem solving on a diagram of a failed equipment. Remember to perform root cause analysis. This was followed by research presentation which they kept interrupting and asking questions my thesis was not answering ( Like condensed matter physics questions from a chemistry guy!). Complete randomness prevailed. At the exit interview the process engineer managed to find time to ask me team work and trouble shooting questions (see below) . Everyone was just glancing my resume. No technical questions on skills . I had experience with lithography, SPC , DOE no one asked me anything technical. They just harped about my research. By the end I had a feeling they had already hired someone and this was just a dummy interview. So much so for wasting my time. Intel is a good place only if you work in D1D.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why are manholes round? Will you use a deposited humidifier when a baby is your house ?