Intel Interview

Larry_o_C

Hi all,
Have an upcoming interview at Intel Shannon for a graduate software engineer position and was wondering if anyone had any tips? What questions do they favour? The stickies at the top of this page are brilliant but I need some technical direction!

zoemax

I did an interview for Intel Leixlip about two years ago and they didn't ask the standard interview questions. They gave me scenarios and asked me to outline I would deal with the scenarios and also asked me a give examples of situations that I had dealt with previously that showed a particular skill that I had. They were very interested in examples / scenarios dealing with team work; managing staff; inter staff relationships; performance managent; etc. Job was for a training manager so may be different to your type of questions but I got the impression that this type of questionning was standard.

leeroybrown

An interview for Intel Leixlip would almost certainly be a behavioural interview like the one zoemax had but I'm not 100% sure if they use them for Intel Shannon as it is very much a separate part of Intel. In the behavioural interview each question attempts to get information about a specific desired quality in the candidate based on previous performance in a situation. They want a clear situation-action-outcome based answer that demonstrates how you displayed that quality.

Raul

Hi Larry,
You will probably have two parts to an interview with Intel. There will be the HR part to ensure you have a "suitable personality" for Intel and then the technical part relating to the job itself. I can't comment on the technical part as I don't know what the job entails.

As for as the HR part, the Intel values are follows:

Discipline
Great Place to Work
Risk Taking
Customer Orientation
Results Orientation
Quality

Try to match your answers around these if it possible. Teamwork is another good one to throw in which probably falls under "Great Place to Work". There will probably be scenario type questions as mentioned already such as "if you had a problematic teammate, what would you do?"

Good luck with the interview

pablo21

Intel use "Behavioural Interviewing" as a technique in all interviews regardless of the job being applied for. Depending on the job, you will be interviewed by a minimum of two people but usually three made up of technical, Behavioural, and a member of management. Behavioural question's are normally scenario based and altough they seem very vaugue from your side of the table they are a very effective way of finding out if the person is spouting BS. I did interviewing for Intel for 10 of the 14 years I spent with them and I think the key to the interview is continuity from "Story" to "Story" i.e. decide your example stories before you go in so when the Interviewer asks you "Give me an example of a time you effectivley handled ......." it will be easier to ensure you pepper your stories with "teamwork", "team", "Safety" etc etc if you already have scenarios clear in your head. Intel uses a "Values" System that directs the company from head to toe and it would be a bonus if you could familiarize yourself with these core values. Example being Safety, Risk Taking, Great place to work, etc etc. Hope this is of some help....

Raskolnikov

When I applied for Intel, I was only interviewed by technical people (a guy who would be my direct manager and another guy who was his manager), neither were HR.

My best advice would be to make sure you know everything on your CV, if they bring something up you're not comfortable with talking about, then say that straight away. Also, make sure you have answers to all the standard HR questions. "Give me an example of a time when you showed teamworking skills"; "Talk about a situation when you faced a great challenge and how you over came it"; etc.

Also, I would say that it's highly likely (99%) that the role you're being interviewed for is for C/C++/integrated systems development as that is at the core of what the Shannon operation does. Know the OO-concepts and all the details of the languages.