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Software Engineer Interview Experience

March 1, 2022
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Initial Phone Interview: Asked knowledge-based technical questions. Essentially trivia and knowledge about the technologies on my resume.

Take-Home Assignment: Asked to code the card game War. 6-8 hours expected time investment was what they said.

Final Round: Consisted of 5 rounds of interviews, with 1-2 interviewers per session.

  • LeetCode round (one easy, one hard)
  • Two system design rounds
  • A general resume review round
  • A behavioral round

The interviewers were nice enough. I'm not sure if Intel pays enough to justify the take-home assignment plus LeetCode hard. The interview process for SWEs varies by team, but this was for the LTD Frame Automation team.

I heard back two days later that I wasn't selected.

Questions

Serialize and deserialize a binary tree.

An external API is called to get the exchange rate between currencies. Design/code to reduce the calls to the external API while maintaining near real-time information.

Basic SQL query question. Given a table with employee details, return the employees that make more than their manager.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 234 interview experiences for the Intel Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

52%
Pass Rate

Intel's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is on the easier side as most engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive66%
Neutral26%
Negative9%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Intel's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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