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Updated Jan 19, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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AKT at Applied Materials
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 1 week)
study your Electronic wire gages and Semiconductor equipments.
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none
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Member of Technical Staff at Applied Materials
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 4+ weeks)
First phone screening was in late 2009, and I came to AMAT about a month later. About 2-3 weeks after the face to face interview they gave the offer and I started work about a month later. Phone screens were with a recruiter and then the hiring manager.
Face to face interview was all day and meeting members of the team and other employees in the division. I had worked in the semi business and specifically AMAT before, so nothing was a surprise. You interview all day and might be asked to talk about your technical background or what you think of key projects, but there are no puzzles or quizzes or nonsense like that!
You are treated as a highly skilled technical professional and not given huge fancy perks. People from out of town stay at budget hotels and I think get a meals allowance. In a way this reflects the values of the company because it is not a fancy, showy type of company - hardcore engineering.
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Not much - big company and middle manager means not that much latitude.
I tried this when getting hired at Intel and got nowhere. If you are a higher up manager/director/exec, I think there might be more flexibility. But big companies like AMAT operate by pay grades and there is at most 10-20% difference between highest and lowest. If you succeed in getting a high offer, you will get lower raises the next year. Eventually, everyone is within a pretty narrow range.
Don't worry, you aren't getting screwed on the offer. AMAT doesn't pay the most but they are not lowball.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Human Resources at Applied Materials
Posted Oct 2, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 1 week)
hiring manager seems a nice person but has little experience in guiding and mentoring the position that is being advertised.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Program Manager at Applied Materials
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 3 months)
My interview experience with applied materials was extremely frustrating and annoying. I first received a call from the HR to take up the interview on a scheduled date. Telephonic interview was agreed upon by us on May 18th. I gave the interview on the said date and it went quite well. The interviewer was an Indian working in the USA office of applied materials. Before concluding the interview, he said he would notify me by email of the result of the interview, but it would take 1-2 weeks for him to do so. So i waited and in the meantime I found out from the HR in India that I was through to the second round. 2 weeks passed and I received no mail or any communication from anyone. I got in touch with the HR and she said she would mail the person who interviewed me for an update. And believe it or not, this was the reply I got from the HR for the next 2 months. I was a little keen on the role, so I was hopeful and remained in touch with the HR, but to my great annoyance, there was no concrete response. Apparently the person who interviewed me was very busy with his work and could not find time for the next round. Seriously, is it asking for too much on his part to drop a mail saying that he would arrange for the interview shortly? This guy had no courtesy to even send a one liner to me. Talk about unprofessionalism. Finally after a lot of questioning on my part, a date for a second round was fixed. That again got postponed because 'His highness' suddenly became busy. Finally a date was fixed. And it was again a telephonic round. Would you believe it, the HR sent me a number that I needed to call to enter the interview discussion! Why should I need to call for giving an interview? It was a local number, but still ! Well, I did what I was suppoded to do. I called from my mobile and gave the interview. The interview was quite simple and I thought I did well. Again, i was told that i would be informed of the result the very next day. And guess what, I did not receive anything for the next 2 weeks. I was in touch with the HR who by this time was getting annoyed by my persistence. Imagine my plight. The interview had dragged for 3 months and for no fault of mine, the HR gets pissed off at me! Finally I received a mail from the HR after 2 weeks. A blunt email stating that I had no cleared the round. That was it. I believe they were just not keen on hiring for the position and they found it convinient to drop the whole thing by saying I had not passed the interview. This also coincided with the news of recession starting all over again, so that might have also had a say in their decision to not hire me. Of course, it is possible that I might have messed up the interview. But to wait 3 months for 2 rounds of telephonic interviews speaks volumes about the professionalism or the lack of it in Applied Materials. Good luck to others who interview with this company. Hopefully you will have a more pleasant experience compared to mine. But do remember this incident when you have to make a decision about joining this company.
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Physicist - Student Position at Applied Materials
Posted Aug 10, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Rehovot (Israel) (took a day)
I initially submitted my CV to the company through a jobs fair at Uni. They contacted me a month later and told me they have a position for a Physicist in a students position (part time job) in the optics department. The interview was a 1:1 Interview with the team leader in the group i was supposed to join. The interview itself was about 1.5 hours long. In the beginning I was told what the team does, in general, and what my position will consist of. I was asked to talk about my CV and previous job experiences. After that I was presented with various questions regarding optics - Describe the double slit experiment and its interference pattern, How does a laser work, A question in electromagnetic theory regarding a change in the frame of reference and a transformation of the fields. The questions tested basic physics knowledge and understanding. After the interview i was told that they would contact me in two weeks to tell me the decision. Actually, in the end they didn't contact me at all, and I heard through a friend that someone else was chosen. The rumor is that the pay is about ~23$ per hour.
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Process Engineer at Applied Materials
Posted Aug 9, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Albany, NY (took 2 days)
Overall the interview was ok. I thought I had the offer but the offer was given to another competitor. I did a 20 min presentation and some questions about my research.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Process Engineer at Applied Materials
Posted Jun 7, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
Took half an hour and the questions were very basic (behavorial, non-technical). They focus heavily on past work or lab experience.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Applied Materials
Posted May 11, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 (took 2 days)
The program manager explained me the product and asked me about some logical questions and questions based on resume
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Mechanical Engineer at Applied Materials
Posted May 6, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took a day)
Very unorganized and unprofessional interview. HR personnel invite people for interview without knowing the needs for a specific department. There is no planned agenda in interviewing processes. So what they want me to do is "Do a presentation of one of your projects" on the chalk board. Then, they start calling some department managers to join in. People came in and left the room randomly. Some cellphone rings. Some just talk on the phone. Unbelievable: some questioned me wrong concept (very basic concept that all engineer learned in their Junior College) I am not joking indeed. Should I work with those people for a living?
Reason for Declining
They got to think about a mutual respect in every aspect of lives. They got to know some people need job for not for making money. Some are working for their passion, interests, and professional improvement. We also went interview for not answering all the questions and not for being judged. They got to know the interviewees also have opportunities to judge them. That they got to learn!
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Mechanical Engineer III at Applied Materials
Posted Apr 28, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
I had a whole day of 1:1 on-site interviews with many managers from different groups. Few days later another manager called me and interviewed me via phone. Got a verbal offer from him about a week later...
the written offer just got in, I am very excited!
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I am not going to negotiate, the offer is very good as it is.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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