I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Intel Corporation
Interview
I got the interview call via senior referral. Nothing very difficult. It was a 1 hour long interview. I had a chance to ask questions about the position. Basic knowledge of physical vlsi design, computer architecture, scripting, c++, verilog and knowledge about backend tools would be enough to crack any Intel intern position
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic questions on logic design, perl scripting and unix commands. Questions were on basic unix commands like grep, find etc. Design questions were on latch design using pass transistors, transistor sizing, components of power consumption, how to reduce the power, static timing analysis questions like fixing setup and hold time violations. Perl questions like finding duplicate words in a file. . Good luck!
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Intel Corporation (Phoenix, AZ) in Aug 2011
Interview
had a phone interview, 5 1:1 interviews out of which one was behavioral interview. Expect to be grilled on basics and all the points on your resume. Everybody was very nice and courteous. It was very good experience
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
frequency divider ckt (divide by odd number) with duty cycle 50%