I was contacted in November to try and get a position from a previous conference. This included me applying for positions, but I was not selected for an interview at that conference. Fast forward to March, and I was contacted because they found my resume in the database from my previous submission. I had to submit my resume again and wait to see if I was selected by the hiring managers to attend the hiring event.

Three weeks later, I found out I was selected and had to leave in 4 days. At the hiring event, I was interviewed by 5 hiring managers for one hour each. They were hiring directly for people to work for them. The interviews included a mixture of technical questions, behavioral questions, and brain teasers.

As an electrical engineer, I was asked questions about SoC architecture, how microprocessors work, semiconductor physics, and about past experiences. The brain teasers included questions to gauge how I approached tricky questions.

At the end of the event, candidates were given formal letters by the managers if they were selected. I am sure that after people selected their first choice, other rejected offers would trickle down and go to other qualified candidates in the following week, but that would be an assumption.

Draw a CMOS transistor and explain how it works. What are NMOS and PMOS?

How does a microprocessor work? (Shows a picture of a motherboard) Name as many components as you can.

Name one thing you learned from your previous experience that is applicable to this position (I said leadership), followed up with "Define leadership."

Why Intel?

Tricky Questions:

You have five 3s. How would you make 31 using basic arithmetic?

How would you make a swap function using C++ without using a third variable?

You have a cake. How would you make 8 slices by using only three cuts?

Questions like this, and there were a lot like this, so have an open mind.