New Grad Hire: A hiring manager contacted me about my resume in November/Early December. Around February/March, I was contacted via email to schedule a phone interview. The interview questions on the phone interview were pretty basic.

After passing the phone interview, I was offered an on-site interview. Intel paid for all expenses. I opted not to fly since I lived a few hours' drive away.

The on-site interview was grueling, from 9 AM to 4 PM or so, with back-to-back one-hour one-on-one interviews and a lunch with a manager and employee. The interviews included:

• Some technical questions
• Some brain teasers
• Some behavioral questions
• Some conversational questions

I think the general purpose of the interview was to see how you think and learn. Be sure to think out loud as much as possible. There were repeat questions; I think this was to see if you retained information after getting help earlier on with a question.

I got everyone's email who interviewed with me that day from the hiring manager and sent them all a quick, personalized email about what we discussed in the interviews, thanking them for their time. I have no idea if it helped my chances, but I did it because I genuinely liked talking with the engineers there.

I received an offer a few days later.

Phone Screen:

• When and how do you define a global in C?
• How many hex digits are in a byte?