I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) in Mar 2017
Interview
The interview process was fairly average as with all companies. The post interview to offer took a few days. The hiring manager gave me a verbal offer very quickly. However, from offer to on board, it took 3 months. I was hoping to start immediately, but due to a 1 month visa delay, I could not. As for the other 2 months, I have no idea what the administrative side was doing. I made several attempts to micromanage the situation, but they insisted that the delays were inevitable.
I was close to being financially crippled, due to living conditions in California, before they finally set a solid start date. I was not too happy with the amount of delay cause by the company itself, considering they understood that I had no income for that time being and could not take up another job due to work visa constraints.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are process corners?
Write a file handler in Perl.
Draw an inverter and explain the different modes of operation.
Draw a cross section of an inverter.
Explain Latch-Up.
Draw a Flip Flop using Transistors.
etc.
Phone screen interview with HM and then full day panel interview with various engineers and managers. 1hr research presentation then 1:1 interviews throughout the day. HR contacted with decision after 2 weeks.
Algo questions, HR round, spoke to potential colleagues. It was smooth and quick, had a positive experience, good questions asked to me, friendly and positive interviewers for 4 rounds of interviews
First phone call then technical interview on zoom with two interviewers. Asked meet code style questions. Was pretty average but one of them had bad service kept getting disconnected. So was hard to maintain conversation. And kept getting confused.