I can see so many managers still hiring interns left and right. Have you tried using LinkedIn to reach out to recruiters/prospective managers? If your resume good, should be no problem

What do you mean you are not sure about recruiters on LinkedIn? Just set up a LinkedIn profile, list your achievements and backgrounds (Plenty of guide online on how to set up a good LinkedIn profile) and start connecting with recruiters from Intel/ Managers from Intel. Just approach them directly and enquire. Thats called networking. If you don ask, you don't receive. I have gotten many Interview opportunities from Intel/AMD/Keysight/NI/Micron etc just by being proactive and taking the initiative to approach recruiters on LinkedIn. (Mind you, this was during Feb - March this year when the COVID-19 pandemic started to become really serious)

The contacts provided by your uni are usually not reliable as 1. The person may not have job req available in his team right now (if he is a manager) 2. Its outdated (person left Intel) 3. They are manager contacts of previous interns from your uni and they are not necessarily in charge of recruiting and besides, if they are not from HR, they wouldnt know or be bothered about internship opportunities in other team/department/business group. It was the same case when I was in uni, the Intel contacts provided are literally useless.

For Intel, if all you do is just apply through the job portal. You have very little chances of getting past the ATS itself unless you know how to set your resume up with keywords and in an ATS friendly format. You stand a much higher chance to secure a position at Intel if you actually approach and talk to a recruiter/hiring manager. Another tip, when you do approach, be very sure of what you want to do. For example, I have my resume/profile set up for Front-end IC design/ RTL design or front end ASIC flow. Be smart when making your pitch.

And yes, GTs are usually fresh grads that left uni. If you are still in uni, you wont be hired as GT as GT contract is for minimum 1 year. Its sort of like a trial period before they convert you to permanent BB employee.

Also try to look for open position using Workday (if you can access) instead of jobs.intel.com.

You can click connect with them first. Most recruiters will accept your request as long as your profile is properly set up and does not look like a spam account. Then you can either message them or drop them an email. Most will have their email listed in the contact info as well. You dont need Premium for this. Just remember to be professional and polite when sending your email/message.

I mentioned front-end design just as an example of how you should sell yourself and also thats where my interest is. For all intents and purposes, you can mention stuff related to electrical validation / physical design if thats where your interest lies. Just be specific and clear of what you want to do and back it up with projects / assignments / skills that relate to that area. Intel is huge and covers the entire ASIC flow from front-end (RTL design) to back end (synthesis, place and route, structural and physical design) and to fabrication (not in malaysia), so you dont necessarily need to know everything. If electrical validation is something you are interested in, then tailor your resume to it. A recruiter/hiring manager will more likely call you up for interview if you show specific skillsets that fit that job scope or clear interest in that particular area rather than a person who just set up their resume in a general way (Internship looking / third year students who are still unsure of which specific area of EE engineering they are interested in are usually at fault here)

Good luck in your search for an internship placement!

Short answer yes. you are able to jump between departments although not immediately. Once you are converted from GT to permanent, you are required to stay within that department for a minimum of 1 year.

Unless you are able to provide more details regarding your roles/team. Its hard to elaborate for you what each job entails. My advice is just take up whichever offer that align with your strongest skillset currently. Heres an overview on what skills are usually needed for the major engineering teams in Penang that may help you decide.

Pre-silicon Front-End RTL/Logic Design and Validation (Relevant teams include PCH Front-end team, IPG SIP team, DDG Atom core design and validation team, PSG Custom logic design team) - SystemVerilog/Verilog, Perl, Linux and Shell Scripting.

Pre-silicon Back-End Design and Validation (Relevant teams include PCH Physical/Structural Design team, DDG Atom core SD team, PSG SD team) - Common VLSI knowledge (Stuff like Static timing analysis, clock tree synthesis, etc) You will be working on stuff like Floorplanning, partitioning, place and route and layout. If you are unfamiliar with these terms, google them. Basic scripting skills (Perl/Python) and Linux.

People from all sorts of background gets hired all the time depending on departments.

PSG is Alterra. Intel bought over Alterra in 2015. Now they are known as Intel Programmable Solutions Group producing FPGA and Custom logic/SoC products.

As for the environment, you will get different answers from different people regarding it unless you can be more specific on what you trying to know/find out. Generally, I would say it has a good working environment.

This post has been edited by Xflkekw: Apr 20 2021, 12:34 PM

Salary ranges for different grades varies between each department. But this is a rough estimate for a typical engineer at intel malaysia that you can take with a grain of salt. Info is based on rumors or stuff you can dig from the internet.

Grade 3 / Graduate Tranee : RM 3k+
Grade 5: 4.5k+
Grade 6: 6k +
Grade 7: 7.5k+
Grade 8 (Manager level): 10k +
Grade 9 (Technical lead / Senior managers): 5 figures
Grade 10 (Principal engineer / Director): 5 figures

Can be anywhere from 2 weeks to a month or in some cases even longer. There are also cases where they call back just a few days after. My advice is be proactive. Ask them back after 2 weeks if no response.

This post has been edited by Xflkekw: Mar 17 2022, 05:43 PM

What is L's pay range for Intel grade 5 equivalent?

Need 3 days onsite. Minus off all other allowances and subsidy (Meal, Wi-Fi, Toll, Mileage, Car interest, free gym and personal training consultations) My guess is nett increase of around 10-15%? I wouldn't call that good enough.

Also recently Jim Anderson no longer the CEO. How do you feel about that? I think he was instrumental in Lattice's current success (Stock price concurs its a big loss). And with AMD and Altera both shifting focus back into low-end and mid-range FPGAs, do you think Lattice stands to hold its own in the long term?

This post has been edited by Xflkekw: Jun 11 2024, 06:06 PM

Gym classes cancelled too. The trainers basically kena CPM

tfw you join in 2021 still stuck in G5 90% comparatio. Fren join same time as GT, jump outside and now come back as G6. hahahaha. Intel reward cycle cannot harap one. You want big increment? You jump outside

This post has been edited by Xflkekw: Mar 14 2025, 10:28 PM

Well, now they take away the only perk to work at Intel. No more WFH starting 1 Sep.

yes 1 day. compared to whole week currently.

Lol then its your team not following proper documentation protocol la for top secret and confidential documents. Things like HAS needs to be checked in and checked out and we have proper version control. Need to go through review with microarchitect / architect to push through changes also

Got. Skyechip will give 5k-6k freshgrad even in their Penang branch if you are good. But workload also like dog. Expect you to OT past 5pm and on weekends as well. I guess the extra salary is for your OT pay

And skyechip is also willing to dump a lot of money on you if you are good. If you are useless, they will soft force you out with low single digit increment during focal.

India engineer the ones that are good are really good. The ones that are shit will make you

Basically either really good or really shit (talking no jutsu no1 type) no in between.

Altera will only return to office completely when Intel folks also return to office and move to their new PG17 building. Currently expected is around Nov - Dec time frame. So you still have half a year to plan.

Currently PG14, PG15 and PG16 buildings actually belongs to Intel and they will be leasing it to Altera. Some parts will partitioned off and strictly for Altera employee access only and likewise for Intel. Cafe and carpark will be shared.

Intel folks will be moving to PG17 new building at the end of the year. So yes Altera will have enough space then.

If not finish then RTO get pushed back until whenever its completed lo. Corporate Service says building will be ready in November so we will see la Plus Intel already have agreement to give up portions of PG14, PG15 and PG16 to Altera by 1st September already. So will get kicked out regardless.


But pity Kulim folks will have to enter office starting 1st Sep regardless.