Intel Corporation Process Engineer interview questions

Recruited at a career fair. Passed initial screening interviews. Was flown out to the site for multiple interviews. Asked basic technical questions in which they expect you to be familiar. ie Young's modulus, heat exchanger, statistics, 3 modes of heat transfer, etc.

Had a phone interview where i described my PhD research and I got along fairly well with the person I spoke with. I received another request for an interview from another group at the same time. Regretfully, even though I got a better feel from the other group, they were not allowed to interview me further and it seems like that one would have gone better. In any case, I had an onsite interview with the 1st group and then very shortly after they said they would not be offering me a position (so soon afterwards that it seems obvious they decided before I even got out there). Onsite interview consisted of 1-on-1s and a presentation on my PhD research. Half of the 1-on-1s involved basic chemistry questions. One interviewer was particularly rude though, giving me a really hard time about some electrochemistry experiments I had done. His points were completely irrelevant to the context of the experiments that were being done, but he kept insisting these were important things I was not doing...finally he just sort of gave up arguing with me. It was awkward because you have to defend your PhD research, but you don't want to argue with someone interviewing you. One person simply did not seem interested in talking with me. Another individual kept asking me about if I developed a model for my experiments, which I already talked about for 1/2 my presentation, but all the other 1-on-1s went well. Overall, I felt like they had already decided who to hire before I got there. Some of the people were fairly reasonable in their 1-on-1 interviews, but as mentioned above, a couple were pretty unreasonable for whatever reason. One younger lady I talked with during lunch said that she gained a lot of weight in the 1st few months in joining Intel due to stress and recently was able to lose it. They are on an extremely strict deadline for how they advance their nodes or whatever you want to call it. I guess I wasn't disappointed in not getting an offer, it didn't seem like a very interesting position and was mainly just engineering and repetition, and not much professional development or learning.