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 in-person. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Rehovot) in Apr 2026
Interview
First stage: 90 minutes coding interview, basic questions about experience, 3 medium range C++ tasks:
1. About non-blocking interprocess communication
2. Don't remember
3. Big dataset normalization
Second stage: 90 minutes software design interview about multithreading data processing
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have huge vector of unsorted char values. Find the value which is bigger than 90% of values in vector. Can you do it in O(n)?
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Applied Materials (New Delhi) in May 2022
Interview
It was good.first round from someone from India very helpful guy while I was solving ds array questions.
Second round was at late night with foreigner and he was also good but it's like they mainly focus a lot on multhithreading so be prepare for that.i was not selected in second round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Total 2 rounds.
First round array ds questions like remove duplicates from array, find peak element in rotated sorted array, binary search , second highest max no and then muthithreading questions like lock and how to remove deadlock. They focus a lot on multhithreading concepts.
Second round - struct class diff (silly question)
Deadlock theory and then write code to show deadlock , then two big codes where you have to guess the output and it's also on multhithreading. What is lock.
List and linked list diff
How Dictionary is implemented internally.
In second round I was not selected.but surely this one will help someone so be prepare for multhithreading questions and very easy ds questions.
A brief overview of the organisation followed by my introduction and work. Then we went with the online platform for coding glider. The questions asked are below:
Internal implementation of Hash Map
Upside Down pyramid sum for a 2-D array which is made input using 1-D array and of N*M matrix.