Applied Materials Senior Software Developer interview questions

Operating System related questions (Windows OS), C and C++ questions, questions on memory allocation, bit manipulations, string manipulations.

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.