How do I get a job with Intel?

What path should be followed to get a job in Intel?

• Answer:

  I answered this question previously, specifically for an internship.  This is what I told the other person: There are several routes to take toward working at Intel.  In the end, your ability to master engineering concepts is more important than which specific field of study you went for. There are a number of specific routes that will help you get into the company. Computer architecture.  Obviously Intel designs computer chips.  Having skills in doing logic design and understanding the details of how a processor works from memory hierarchy, how an instruction cycle goes, how to do OOO execution, branch prediction, how a cache works, etc. will help you get into the architecture side. Semiconductors and process engineering.  Intel is the largest manufacturer of semiconductors in the world.  They spend a lot of money on pushing forward the next big process, and invest some really good people into pushing up yields and driving down costs in older processes (Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge chipsets are on 65nm process, and the Haswell chipset is on a 32nm process, all at least one process node behind the CPUs they support). Physical design.  After coming up with a logic architecture, it has to have an actual physical layout in order to work on Silicon.  If you can use CAD tools for IC layout, or better yet, program in Perl or TCL or another scripting language to automate CAD IC layouts, that will be a big plus. Altogether there is a huge "luck of the draw" aspect to landing a job there.  Go to recruiting events.  Even if you make an impression on the recruiter, there's no guarantee that the recruiter will be able to convey that impression on to someone who can interview you.  Usually they just filter out the resumes according to what they want to see on it (usually high GPA + taken relevant classes and/or list relevant skills) and pick random candidates from there. Having worked at Intel full-time without having done an internship, I can't really tell you what kind of questions they tend to ask for internship interviews.  I can tell you that for a full-time position, they ask some very generic technical questions targeted for your field (EE:  solve this circuit, draw a MOSFET cross section and some I-V curves;  ME:  solve this heat pump system, draw a feedback diagram for this controller robot;  MatSci:  how can I determine how much this section is doped using a standard SEM?), then they will ask a few "behavioral" questions to gauge how you work in teams, how you deal with conflict, and how dedicated you are to things that are important to you. Best of luck to you in your job search.