The company visits college to conduct online tests on popular platforms like hackerrank, where they would post 1-5 questions and expect you to solve under some specified time, usually 1 hour. The selected candidates would be advanced for either 1-2 technical interviews or an 8 hour long hackathon. The advancement rounds differ from year to year, be prepared for both.
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First round- online coding round in Hackerrank 2 Questions on Data Structures and problem solving algorithms 1.based on string manipulation 2.based on graphs (type of island question) Time given - 90mins
The interview process had 3 rounds out of which 2 were DSA rounds and 1 was a hiring manager round. The DSA rounds had leetcode medium to hard level problems.
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1. BFS variant on a 2D matrix
2. Scheduling problem
The first step is the online application. If you get passed this then it is a virtual interview with 2 coding questions. The questions are not too bad in hindsight.
I applied online. I interviewed at KLA in Feb 2023
Interview
Had one technical interview and then another interview described as “speaking to the hiring manager”. I thought this would be a personal interview so was unprepared when he asked me coding questions
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The first interview was a Leetcode type question and the second had more general software questions like explaining a functor