Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Intel Corporation with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 38 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 38 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 23%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 12%
Skills test: 12%
Background check: 10%
Presentation: 9%
Personality test: 5%
Drug test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Chandler, AZ) in Jan 2020
Interview
It was over the phone coding challenge - no IDE or development platform available It was an unscheduled interview where the interviewer just called me out of the blue one day. I had to describe code to my interviewer because there was no online platform for me to read the question or write out the code. Then entire process took about an hour.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The question was about sorting a list. Once I provided a solution, the interviewer uped the stakes and added more parameters for the order the list is supposed to be sorted in. I don't remember the specific details but no libraries were allowed to be used to assist my solution.
Phone call interview about basics of Algorithm, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems. Mostly on bit manipulation, memory management, process scheduling, threads, mutex, semaphores, locking mechanisms, IOMMU, instruction pipeline, Direct Memory Access.
I interviewed at Intel Corporation (California, MD)
Interview
1. First an HR person called me and scheduled an interview
2. There were 4 persons on the interview panel and asked about the OOP
I got some question correct and some wrong. Did not got an offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Several questions about classes and objects in C++.
2. Inheritance
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Bayan Lepas) in Aug 2025
Interview
Interview was scheduled 10 days after sending application. 3 interviewers, only one of them were local. Basic programming questions, only theory no coding involved, behavioral questions was asked. They have also asked to explain the experience doing projects related to those skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions like, what was the biggest challenge you have faced while working