Got referred by a friend to a team manager. The team manager liked my resume and scheduled a phone interview with me. Phone interview was mainly informing me about the job requirements and if I was interested and if I was willing to relocate to Intel Hillsboro location in Oregon. I showed interest and then an on-site interview was scheduled within a week. The onsite interview was an entire day. It started with a presentation of my PhD dissertation work for an hour, then 6 technical/behavioral interviews with a lunch break in between. Some initial interview advice: Learn these algorithms by heart: bubble-sort, selection sort, insertion sort, merge sort, quick sort, breadth first search (BFS) , depth first search (DFS) Learn basic data structures: Linked lists, hash tables, stacks, queues, heaps, binary search tree Learn basics concepts: Recursion, memory: stack vs heap, tail recursion, dynamic programming. C++ classes stuff like inheritance, polymorphism etc, You can use the "cracking the coding interview" book to learn most of the aforementioned stuff. Important note: Practice coding everything on a piece of paper, not on your computer. This will help build confidence and make the interview process go much smoother. I interviewed with Intel twice. First, a frame automation engineer position. The interview went horrible because I lacked confidence due to not practicing on paper beforehand and when they asked questions I fumbled a lot and time ran out. I wasn't given an offer for this position. The second position I interviewed for was a CAD engineer position. This interview went much better and I received an offer for this position.

Easy interviews, mostly they look for RCGs or from service based companies as they can't afford to match the CTC of Amd and Nvidia folks. Interview happens for different domain with easy to moderate questions.