I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Bengaluru) in Sept 2021
Interview
Was contacted by the HR.
A 15 mins interview was scheduled for the following day. The requirement was for a legacy project.
The interviewer right away asked me turn my camera on without having the courtesy of doing the same himself.
He asked me to rate myself on C#, desktop apps, SQL and DSA.
With a tone of arrogance he asked me to share my screen and gave a small coding snippet. Since I was able to answer them all, he asked me some unheard off OOPS concept.
At the end when asked, he told me he is a senior manager with 15+ of experience and has earlier worked at Microsoft. His behavior and attitude had me assume a fresher was conducting my interview.
Overall a very negative and distasteful experience.
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.