I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Los Angeles, CA) in Oct 2011
Interview
Programming Q's, Operating System Questions and Real Time Programming Concepts. Database and Data Structures. Programming Syntax and Object Orienting concepts. Control Concepts, Programmable Logic Controllers and Proportional Intergral Deriviative Contoller. Structured Query Language syntax and stuff. One on One interview with programming examples