The application process was glacial. I'm convinced that this is a tenacity test, to see how badly people want to work for the company. Having been hired I now know that the HR people in charge of hiring have been overwhelmed and this shouldn't be the case anymore. Part of the company sales pitch is that they hired the best people they could find. This is apparent in the interviews, everyone was quite obviously either extremely proficient or an expert in their fields. The interview questions were nothing special. I was asked how I would explain a particular measurement technique to an engineer without any experience with it. And I was quizzed on a number of semiconductor related measurement and deposition techniques. There were three interviews in all, 1 phone and 2 face to face.