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).
I applied online. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA)
Interview
Applied for the position through linkedin and got a call from the Sr.engineer about 5 months later. I ask him what the position is about and he actually laughed at me for not remembering 10 lines of job description. Nevertheless, I went for an interview next day. It lasted about 30 minutes. 4 guys casually asking general questions, with one guy walking in even more casually in between the interview and asking a technical question, for which I gave the correct answer.He gives me a sarcastic smile and walks out.
The questions were mostly "can you do lab work ? "have you handled some particular xx tool earlier " etc which were not even mentioned remotely in the job description. Basically, I think they copy pasted a template of job description for some other job and posted it. The lazy attitude of the people was quite evident in the interview. For technical questions, I answered some questions correctly and did not remember some answers and told them the same since I had very little time to prepare for it. I don't understand the concept of expecting people to know about the exact tools they use and have worked on the exact software they have. I told them I had experience working on similar tools and that i can learn quickly and they had a "whatever" expression. A disaster of an interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Bengaluru)
Interview
I was contacted by the company HR through Naukri. He scheduled the interview within a week.
Round 1: Aptitude test (50 questions in 1 hour)
Includes 25 general aptitude questions (time and work, ratio, ages,calendar, etc) and
25 technical aptitude questions(program output, debugging the errors, questions based on OS concepts like scheduling algorithm, paging, virtual memory, etc)
Round 2: Write 4 programs(C/Java) in 1 hour (Pen and paper)
Round 3: Technical interview (2 person panel). The interviewers were quite friendly and helpful in guiding me to find the correct answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round1:
Do some research on internet and try to understand what kind of questions are asked. Questions are simple and test the candidate's basic fundamental skills. Main thing is speed. 50 questions in 1 hours is very difficult, especially for experienced candidates who are out of touch solving aptitude questions. So practise a lot. Give more weightage to technical questions first and then general aptitude as time does not permit to solve all.
Round 2:
1. Program to read from a file and write to another file while replacing all vowels with '*'
2. Program to add elements to a 5*9 array in the following order:
A
BCD
EFGHI
JKLMNOP
QRSTUVWXY
3. Program to reverse the digits of a number and print them.
4. Program to print the maximum occurrences of a character in a given string.
Round 3:
1. Explain the current project and questions based on that.
2. Basic C/C++ questions
3. Lot of questions centered on bitwise operators like
a) toggle the bits of a number
b) flip the first and last bit(n), second and (n-1)th bit, and so on
4. How to optimise the programs written in Round 2.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Austin, TX) in May 2014
Interview
I applied on my university career portal and started to get e-mails. Then they set up the interview date after graduation. They flew us in and provided hotel accommodations and reimbursed us for food and taxi fares. They were hiring 4/8 candidates and interviewed us twice each, one by one. Still waiting to hear back from them, since it has not yet been two weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the interviewers seemed to be asking the same questions over and over, just in different words.