Physical Design Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Intel Corporation with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Physical Design Engineer roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 41 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Intel Corporation overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Intel Corporation as a Physical Design Engineer according to 41 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
One on one interview: 17%
Group panel interview: 11%
Skills test: 11%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 7%
Drug test: 7%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Other: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Bengaluru) in Aug 2013
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Applied via referral and got a call for first telephonic interview lasted for half an hour. Then I was invited to face to face technical round that lasted almost 6 hours (one round with each team mates). Final round with business unit group director. I was then contacted by an HR two days later to confirm my final offer and to talk about compensation. Overall process took 2-3 weeks.
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Basics, everyone is interested to know depth of your knowledge so for graduates they will start from CMOS transistor level and keep going higher to SoC design level. As along as you could break, its ok to say if you don't know about something, they are interested to see where you got broke and measure depth of your knowledge. One advice to all graduates keep your fundamentals clear, that brings confidence and vlsi industry respects people who have knowledge.
very nice people. given 2 question one on system of the group and one for coding in binary search and recursion. we started by little talking and then a little bit on one of the project and then 2 questions
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1. given graph and car with light sensor and we want to find the right spot of the dot on the graph. it was binary search classical
I applied online. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Bengaluru) in May 2026
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Deep whiteboard interview , was asked to draw graphs for non ideal characteristics for cmos design and pvt corners. Questions related to project and physical design concepts. Focused on semiconductor physics and technical depth in each answer.
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was asked to draw graphs for non ideal characteristics for cmos design and pvt corners.Questions related to project and physical design concepts. Focused on semiconductor physics and technical depth in each answer.
This was the second round lasted about an hour or so. The first round was mostly about my work as I had 3 year experience and I had to walk them through the projects I did etc..,.
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If the combination logic between 2 FF's is cut like an interface, how do you set_input_delay and set_output_delay for left and right partitions. The clock is the same for both.