I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) in Oct 2014
Interview
I was very impressed that the process moved so fast. No delays. The whole process took a fraction of the time it would take at other big companies. Had two rounds of phone interviews then was called onsite. At the onsite interview I had 7 rounds of interviews, one hour each. The first was with senior manager and focused on behavioral, goals questions and then basic questions from what I had written on my resume. The next 5 were technical. I was tested on C, Java because that was what I said I was most comfortable with. Questions ranged from knowledge of the language e.g questions about how the garbage collector in java works, to coding questions on trees, pointers, recursion, string manipulation, arrays etc. Some interviewers also asked computer architecture questions e.g. caches, superscalar processor design etc... The last meeting was with project manager. Asked few questions concerning whether I liked group members and projects being worked on.
All in all the interviewers were very focused, professional, bright and helpful. It felt more like an interesting intellectual conversation than an interview.
The overall process was smooth and streamless, occurring within the span of a week or so. The interviewers were professional and friendly, and were attentive throughout the duration of the interviews. I was asked multiple questions regarding my personal goals and what I would like to accomplish at Intel. Additionally, I was told that I would have a good amount of flexibility within the team as well as ample resources to bring up my questions or suggestions to higher-ups.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Intel Corporation
Interview
I take part in the onsite interview. There are four rounds. Interviewers include: two software engineers, manager and director. Most technical questions are fair, covering work experience and algorithm. Algorithm questions are in average difficulty. Besides, they also ask some behavioral questions, for example, teamwork, cooperation, leadership, etc. They're also interested in why you choose this company and how you will demonstrate you will be competent for the position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One algorithm I still remember is a shortest path question for horse to jumps from one point to another point in chess panel.