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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

November 1, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Have lunch with the hiring manager and talk to five people on the panel, one at a time. The questions are not ideal for testing an experienced candidate. They judge you by specific questions without appreciating the candidate's working experience.

Questions

  1. Given an array of n integers. Derive an array where the value of the element at index i is the product of elements in the given array except for element i. The complexity should be O(n).

  2. How to traverse a timing graph starting from the input nodes? The data structure of the nodes in the graph is given. Write a C program for it.

  3. Implement a C++ hashing function.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the Intel Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Intel's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Jose, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral38%
Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Intel's Software Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.

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