I applied online. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA)
Interview
I had 3 rounds of interviews with different levels of managers who went through the complexities of the projects I had worked on in the past. One interview also involved designing a distributed system and how different traffic loads would be managed. The interviews were wrapped up in a week and I received a verbal offer next week. I waited for the offer letter for 4 weeks and the recruiter still do not have released an offer letter for me, citing that the finance department has not approved my offer yet. The process was very frustrating and totally unexpected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your past experience. How would you deploy an ML model in a distributed environment? Design a photo sharing system.
I applied online. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA)
Interview
I interviewed for fun (and practice). The office was nice. No NDA so I can speak freely. First round was a zoom call where the interviewer seemed to know nothing about me and had the wrong resume info pulled up. He accused me of lying about my experience before realizing he was reading the wrong resume. Very professional.
Final round was an onsite. They told me it won't be technical - not that I mind, I dig some leetcode. I get there and, as it turns out, it is technical. The interviewers were like Thing 1 and Thing 2, good cop bad cop. They asked me some DevOps and SRE questions (not what I applied for, nor anything I do) and then asked some LLM questions. I answered correctly, they laughed and said I was wrong. At the end of the interview they backtracked on that. Managers seemed cool but I doubt the pay is competitive. Haven't heard back about an offer yet.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Treviso) in Jun 2026
Interview
Primo colloquio conoscitivo con reparto HR, a seguito di riscontro positivo da parte loro è seguito un secondo colloquio tecnico in sede con figure software e dell'area engineer dell'azienda abbastanza lungo
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Approccio alla progettazione software, focus sulla metodologia di lavoro
Started with HR call for like 30 minutes where the HR explain about the role, ask about my background etc. Tehn technical revivew with 2 leetcode questions where the first one was basick and the second was medium