The hiring process at Applied Materials takes an average of 7 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Software Developer had the quickest hiring process (on average 7 days), whereas Software Developer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 7 days).
There was one phone interview. Questions about the education background and PhD experience. The manage also spent 1/3 of the time to explain the daily work over there. 1 onsite interview in 2 weeks. Met 7 people including division manager, group managers, engineers and HR people. Questions are more related hands on experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What will you do differently if you do your Phd one more time
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Applied Materials in Aug 2014
Interview
Interview process as mentioned in the call letter
- Written test (25 aptitude and 25 technical) for 1 hour
- Technical programming : 1 hour
- Technical face to face : 1 hour
Written test review:
Aptitude consisted of the questions from the following topics
- A large Cube painted on all its side and divided into 64 pieces, determine how many cubes has no painted side, two painted sides, three painted sides
- Find the missing number in the series
- Blood relations
- count the trailing zeroes of 302!
- areas of square, circle when they are inscribed inside themselves
- Clock
- Frog jump problem
- percentage
- Union and intersections
Technical aptitude
- Inorder, preorder, post order traversals of normal trees, BST
- CMOS full form
- 4X1 Multiplexer
- Output of some simple programs
- Priority scheduling algos,
- fork() call
- QUEUEs
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Try to complete all the questions, if you aren't completing all the questions you are no way clearing the round
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Hopewell Junction, NY) in Oct 2014
Interview
Found the job position on Craigslist and emailed my resume a day later i was called and did a phone interview. Then about a week later i was called to come interview onsite. The interview was easy up until the practical skills portion. Every questions required me to think very hard about them, but the interviewer has no problem guiding you as long as you have a basic concept. All in all it was i good interviewing experience and everyone was nice a professional.