I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Hillsboro, OR) in Apr 2013
Interview
I submitted my resume online and was called by the end of the day by one of the members in the intern department. He said they were on a time crunch and has six candidates left to choose from, but my resume appeared better than others and he was wondering if I had time to interview before the end of the day. Luckily I only had one more class for the day, and accepted.
The "most difficult" question I was asked (probably because I'm a freshman) was given an array of 100 numbers in order (ie 1,2,3...,99,100) with 99 unique values and 1 duplicate value, how would I find the duplicate? I answered BST and then traverse the left or right child depending on what the root node was. He then asked me the big-Oh of it which is logn. I got a call from the original contact at Intel asking me to join them for the summer about twenty minutes after the phone interview.
Got an email the following week for me to consent to a background check and then the week after that I was formally given an offer.
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The overall interview was 3 rounds: 1 hr call going over fundamental information, 1 technical rounds involving with an engineer on the team based and 1 hiring manager panel rounds
I applied through university. I interviewed at Intel Corporation in Dec 2025
Interview
I applied for a role with Altera (which was acquired by Intel). Formal interview with three 30 minute segments, each with a different interviewer. All questions were technical. Was confusing since I received a second interview a day after the first, but I'm pretty sure it was unrelated. They asked mostly Leetcode Hards.
I applied online. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Swindon, Wiltshire, South West England, England)
Interview
A few hours on site with 3 stages. First I had to give a presentation about a project I did, then answer a few questions about it. Then, we had an open-ended problem solving discussion. Finally, there was a short coding exercise.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is Software Defined Networking? (They did not expect a correct, exhaustive definition).