System Design interview at Intel

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May 12, 2019 11 Comments

Recruiter mentioned that Intel interviews tend to focus on multithreaded/multicore concepts. Unfortunately system design primer or ddia doesnt contain any representative questions on these areas. Any good resources to prep?

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  • Intel / Eng
    Samaritan

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    Samaritan
    Software engineers should stay away from Intel as far as possible if you donโ€™t want your career ruined.
    May 14, 2019 2
  • Intel
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    Why Intel? Which group? Many groups are in hiring freeze mode now and we are anticipating widespread layoffs now. I'd rather be at Adobe.
    May 13, 2019 1
  • Nvidia
    Free ๐Ÿฟ

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    Free ๐Ÿฟ
    The recruiter is just blowing smoke. I doubt the interviewers would even know anything beyond the basics of these topics at best. Intel doesnโ€™t have a standardized interview format either. Just whatever that person/team feels like asking you.

    Stay away from Intel.
    May 22, 2019 0
  • Samsung
    EternalACT

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    EternalACT
    No need to study for Intel, just act like a submissive slave and they will lowball the crap out of you.
    May 21, 2019 0
  • New / Eng
    K6s2k

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    K6s2k
    The art of multiprocessor programming has a good cover of the basics. Perfbook ("Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?") as well.

    But this is completely different beast than system design, expect to start from scratch if you never done any concurrency.

    Are you an engineer at Adobe? I find it kind of amazing that an eng in Adobe wouldn't know what concurrency even is.
    May 12, 2019 2
    • Adobe
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      Yes, I am an intern here. I think you misunderstood my question โ€” knowing concurrency is different from acing an interview. I use multithreading and multiprocessing regularly in school projects
      May 12, 2019
    • New / Eng
      K6s2k

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      K6s2k
      Oh yeah, concurrency isn't really covered in these materials. Both Cracking the Coding Interview and Elements of Programming Interviews have a chapter on this, but it obviously isn't main focus, more like a sidenote.

      I'd suggest going through basics in the books I referred and trying to really understand the concepts. The perfbook has "quick quizzes", which are short quiz questions related to current text/examples. That might be a good simulation of what an interviewer can ask you.
      May 12, 2019