I applied online. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
HR got in touch and asked to fill out a form to schedule the 1st interview. Despite my best effort to reach out after an prolonged period of time has passed after I promptly filled the form, they ghosted me and I never received a reply. Received a generic auto generated rejection after a few weeks with no other followups. The job requisition also vanished on their website, and it still says "in progress" on my career portal, clearly something is broken here but I have no alternatives to reach out. Very unprofessional behavior from their HR, unfortunately this is not uncommon for a gigantic company like this. I came to post this only to find out my experience is very similar to what happened to many others before. I hope the management can realize this and fix their hiring process,
First round—jod description explanation follwed by some behavioral questions. Then a couple of technical question, not in detail, just superficial ones.
Second round - very technical with in-depth questioning on process development and techniques.
PhD work summary and instruments skill set check knowledge and some case questions and intern experience and behavior questions about how to work as teams and how to commute with colleagues and some random questions
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA)
Interview
The hiring process first involves a questionnaire that you need to fill in. This interview was for an entry-level role. You would generally have 3 rounds of interviews: HR Screen, Hiring manager, and next could be with the director.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I found the interviewers were very kind, made me feel comfortable. They questioned a lot on my resume, my approach towards finding solutions.