I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lam Research in Apr 2018
Interview
applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks.
Interview
Applied online through website after receiving information about the position from the Career fair. Received an initial email with a questionnaire that had basic questions regarding background and experience, personal background, and some questions pertaining to future prospects. After submitting questionnaire back to the recruiter, was then contacted for a phone interview that consisted of where I would like to see myself in 5 years and talked about my senior design project and then basic questions regarding the position. Was then asked to come in for 1:1 interview which consisted of the three leads from each shift. Each interview was the same genre of questions and troubleshooting. Each different interviewer had a problem to fix and it was my responsibility to find a way to fix that problem through troubleshooting. After the interview was over, was then lead into the workshop tour.
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Question 1
Test diagnosed and repaired printed circuit board to component level.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Lam Research in Feb 2026
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The weirdest Data Scientist Interview I have ever had!!!
The company should really ask the questions related to the data science domain instead of asking something unrelated to a Data Scientist position, but a production line engineer position.
The interviewer was not professional at all. No explanation for the question, and the question is like opening the back door for anyone with an industrial or hardware engineering degree and shutting the door for people who have other non-engineering quantitative backgrounds.
However, not a single word in the JD was covered in the interview. I went over other people's interviews at this company on Glassdoor, and I assumed the business-related question could be something like "designing a model to predict the wafer yield percentage". This is not true! He asked something you will never know, NO statistics, NO ML, NO DL, NO AI, and even no product case. And the position was described as "You need to stay on the production line and design experiments to examine which machine has a problem every morning". Thus, don't be cheated by the JD, this is just a job named "Data Scientist" but actually something else.
I applied online. I interviewed at Lam Research (Fremont, CA)
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It was taken by a person called Aman who is the proudest rudest person ive ever met. He is so full of himself and thinks he is the best. He would cross question anything i answer and insulted me by laughing at my answers
Joined in as an intern and 3months later got in an offer. Negotiation is possible but the salary limits are rigid for each level. Promotion is only possible after 2 years regardless of performance.
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Question 1
Experience and past projects. Mostly on application of data science.