Good Preparation

Question 1

1. Tell me your story

Answer 1

Share your work journey, showing how it led you to this job.

Explain why you like what this company does, using your past as proof.

Keep it <5 minutes

Question 2

2. What is the hardest problem you’ve ever worked on?

Answer 2

Testing your problem-solving skills and how you handle challenges.

Explain why the problem was hard.

Show how you solved it. Use clear examples.

Question 3

3. Why do you want to work here?

Answer 3

Research the company and explain what you love about it.

If the company has a product, use it and give feedback.

Mention why you like the job role and tie it to your past experience.

Question 4

4. Tell me about a time you faced an ethical dilemma. How did you handle it?

Answer 4

Show you have high integrity and can make decisions under pressure.

Talk about what you decided, how you did it, and what you learned.

Question 5

5. What sets you apart from other candidates?

Answer 5

Highlight your top 5 strengths related to this role, from the job description.

Give examples of when you showed these in prior roles.

Question 6

6. Share an experience when you identified a problem others had missed. How did you discover it, and what action did you take?

Answer 6

You are being tested on your initiative and ability to get sh*t done.

Give specific examples.

Question 7

7. Describe a situation where you had to manage multiple responsibilities. How did you ensure that everything was accomplished?

Answer 7

Describe your multitasking and organizational skills.

Explain how you organize your work and schedule your time.

Show that you get things done!

Question 8

8. Tell me about a time you missed a deadline. How did you handle it?

Answer 8

Be honest about the circumstances that led to missing the deadline, without placing blame.

Highlight your communication skills to mitigate the impact.

Question 9

9. What are your greatest strengths?

Answer 9

Talk about strengths directly related to the role you are interviewing for.

Use the job description as your guide.

Question 10

10. What are your weaknesses?

Answer 10

Choose a real weakness that is not a core skill for the role.

Discuss steps you’re taking to improve, showing self-awareness and growth.

Question 11

11. Give an example of when you worked with someone difficult. How did you manage the situation?

Answer 11

Testing your EQ.

Highlight the importance of communication and finding common ground to work together.

Question 12

12. Why did you leave your previous role?

Answer 12

Focus on what you hope to gain from the new role (e.g. challenge/learning).

Don’t badmouth your last company.

Question 13

How do you communicate with others?

Question 14

Do you know what Micron is most known for?

Question 15

How would you resolve a conflict

Question 16

Why did you apply to this specific job role

Question 17

How much coding experience do you have

Question 18

What products do we sell?

Answer 18

Memory, storage: SSD, SRAM,DRAM,NAND

Question 19

What is percentage is 3 standard deviations?

Answer 19

99.7% (SPC 68%-95%-99.7% - 6 sigma rules)

Question 20

What is the most important quantity to control in photo-lithography?

Answer 20

The dose of EUV/DUV light exposure.

Question 21

Where do you see yourself in five years?

Question 22

Explain something technical to a non-technical individual

Question 23

4 behavioral questions and one technical.

Answer 23

Typical STAR behavioral questions and one Technical question relating to one of the bullet points on my resume.

Question 24

Describe a time you had to work outside your normal everyday duties.

Question 25

Describe a situation where you had to gain credibility among a group. How did you go about doing it and what was the result?

Question 26

I was asked: why I wanted to work at Intel, my experience, how I handle being stuck on a problem, and how I communicate with team members.

Question 27

About 60% behavioral questions and 40% technical questions Tell me about yourself. Talk about your research. Why do you want to work for Intel? What is the difference between doing research in Academia and Industry? How can you effectively communicate a message to your teammate if you are working from home? Questions about the conflict in the workplace were also asked. How do you troubleshoot the equipment that you used before? Most of the technical questions were asked about my work experience. If you are able to defend what you have on your resume and present your body of work fluently, you should be fine.

Question 28

Give an example of time you knew of a problem and but had to convince another person of the issue. This person is also the person who is responsible for the layer/equipment responsible for the issue. How did you proceed? If this person was not receptive, how would you proceed?

Answer 28

Start with clear well presented data, person to person, then email, then email w/CC to persons boss, then schedule meeting with said person and their boss and my boss (note my boss get’s informed in person at each step except the first)

Question 29

If you wanted to determine if one product is better than the other, what would you do in detail?

Question 30

How would you handle conflict in a group?

Answer 30

I answered that in a group it is important to recognize everyone’s feelings and realize that everyone has the best intentions.

Question 31

Describe a time that instructions to accomplish a task were vague, how did you deal with this?

Question 32

Describe a time you didn’t know what to do and had to ask someone for help.

Question 33

Draw a MOSFET, show where you would connect your contacts, and show what kind of voltage you would apply to turn the MOSFET on.

Answer 33

I drew a p-type MOSFET complete with the metal and oxide layers. The contacts connect to the drain, source, and metal. A negative Gate Voltage should be applied to a p-type MOSFET to switch it on.