Intel Corporation Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details All interviewers are very friendly.
They ask mainly based on your field of interest written in your CV. So be sure about it.

In 1st round,they asked to me to 1) design asynchronous mod-10 counter.
2) working of transistor based NOR gate and invertor for any input combination.
3)Write an assembly program of accumulative addition of 10 numbers stored in stack i.e. from 0x00 to 0x10 ,add them to a contant number.then store it in accumulator reg.
4)What is linker list in C ?

In 2nd round,one fellow asked me about Cache.Define Cache.Why Cache in faster ?Where it is located in chip? Give difference bet. SRAM and Cache.
1) Next he ask me about MOS,How to reduce bn/bp ratio practically? what is effect on DC characteristic ?
2) Explain Product life cycle(PLC).
3) Explain STA(Static Timing Analysis) with example.
4) Design 128:1 mux from 4:1 mux,how many MUX and selection lines r required ?
5) Tell me Why should i hire u ?Atlast, he told me to ask some question if i want.

In 3rd round,HR person asked me about two waveforms,so i had to identify them.Next he two me about two situation & ask me how do u tackle them ?

In 4th round,two guys took my interview.It was the final panel,that i had to face.It was longest and difficult among all other rounds.They quickly threw questions on me one by one.There are lots of questions,but i can recall few of them.
1) 1st is identify one mux based circuit,identify layout,what is total W/L ratio of layout in parallel.
2) Explain set up & hold time violation in sequential & combinational ckt. Also same in single & double edge triggered flipflop .
3) One non-technical problem to check your honesty.
4) Tell me something about your project that u had done in B.E & M.tech.Which problems did u face during M.Tech projects,how do u overcome it.What are limitations of your projects ? Which tools did u use ?
5) What is your weekness.how do u overcome. Will u want to learn any scripting language in future ? Next,they show me one simmulation command file to identify it.
6) Give different suggestions to speed up invertor. --Wish u best luck ...u may be inside intel (intel inside).

Interview Details telephone interview mainly on academic projects

Negotiation Details – no negotiation

Interview Details Excellent interview, the interviewers had good knowledge of the subject areas. They were polite and to the point, encouraging and even light hearted which helped reduce the tension in the interview

Negotiation Details – Was able to negotitate a little

Interview Details Good techinical rounds

Interview Details Telephonic Interview, followed by F2F which includes around 3 rounds of technical and 1 final round with senior manager about work ethics etc.

Negotiation Details – Did one round of negotiation which was successful.

Interview Details 3 rounds of interviews

Negotiation Details – Not applicable

Interview Details Hiring process started with an employee referral. I was then shortlisted with a telephonic interview. After that i was called for technical interviews. There were 3-4 rounds of technical interviews, where i was asked general programming questions. I was then sent for personal skills interviews, where i was asked about general team dynamics questions.

Interview Details The longest interview I have attended till date. Most of the questions were from my resume about past projects and a couple of basic question about linked lists (insert, delete).
Hypothetical questions like what technology would you use if you have to count the occurrence of all the words from wikipedia within a day.
A question on what kind of interaction would you have if you want to recommend products to a user
The interview was unusual in the manner it was conducted. The entire time about 3-4 hours was about the resume content.

Interview Details phone call from the manager, then all technical rounds in a single day ( back to back ). Management rounds thereafter.

Negotiation Details – Yes. I had another offer to compare with that of Intel.