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Updated Feb 6, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Application Developer at KLA-Tencor
Posted Feb 6, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Chennai (India) (took a day)
First Round: They kept a technical aptitude round consisting of finding outputs for C,C++ programs and questions from Data structure and OS. Many eliminated here.
Second Round: An 1:1 interview where they will ask you to explain various programs from the aptitude test. This is mainly to eliminate those who cleared apts rnd by luck. It does'nt matter even if you get a few questns wrong. They are just trying to make you understand what you got wrong or how you justify ur ans. Few eliminated here.
Third Round: A 2:1 Interview where they will ask a lot of logical questions and pgm.
1) Write a pgm where letters should be in alternate cases. Ex: HeLlO wOrLd
2) Sorting by connecting boxes.
3) Reversing a sentence word by word. Ex: "Hi you" -> "iH uoy" .
4) Ques in DS, OS.
They will shortlisty final list here.
Fourth Round: HR round. A lot of case studies. There may be eliminations.
Offer is subject to Compulsary internship.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Product Engineer at KLA-Tencor
Posted Feb 6, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Milpitas, CA (took 3 weeks)
A phone interview and then they flew me in for a presentation and a series of eight 1-on-1. In this series of 1:1 lost of questions come over and over and make it boring. In addition every interviewer tends to ask questions about his own background and that may have nothing to do either with your background or with the job you are applying for. Since it is an interview you do your best the good thing is that these questions in general are not difficult. I thought I aced the interview they promised they will call the next week but never did. Two week after the usual thank you I sent a follow up but nobody replied (HR or hiring manager) and after more than two months they sent me a rejection notice when I had already forgotten about them.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Applications Development Engineer at KLA-Tencor
Posted Jan 18, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 1 week)
A recruiter found my resume online, and asked me to complete a questionnaire. A week later, a phone interview was scheduled, and a senior application engineer called. Not many questions, but all related to imaging basics, such as the parameters used in SEM, the resolution of different imaging techniques. Also asked if I could quickly learn to operate new equipment.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at KLA-Tencor
Posted Jan 6, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Chennai (India) (took a day)
Kla tencor came for our campus placement . It offered us a package of Rs. 700000-800000 .
Interview consisted of :-
1) Written Test (75 minutes )
23 Objective Technical Questions from C++, C, OS, Data Structure.(Basically Output Prediction)
2 Programming Questions
10 Aptitude Questions
2) Technical Round (30 minutes)
Discussion on difficult questions of Written Test.
3) Programming Round (60 minutes)
4) HR Round (60 minutes)
Written test consisted of questions which were outside B.Tech scope . The expectation of interviewers is unnecessarily too high as KLA Tencor has bad training facility .
Some of the interview questions are size of virtual destructor, constructor , 4 byte pairing , virtual mapping in functions etc, Memory allocation , deallocation of objects and variables, recognition of error type (Stack Overflow, Linker Error, Compile Time error) etc.
Some of the cons for this company are :- 14 working hours/day , less increment in salary, worst interview process and unfair selection .
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Field Applications Engineer at KLA-Tencor
Posted Dec 12, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took 6 days)
Consisted of phone interview with manager first, group presentation, individual interview in person second and phone interview with human resources finally. Friendly group of people, more than willing to answer questions. They even shared with me specially what they were looking for.
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Negotiation Details
Willing to negotiate bonuses, but not salary due to pay equity standards in the company
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Applications Engineer at KLA-Tencor
Posted Oct 4, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Chennai (India) (took 2 days)
1. Received a call from HR
2. Scheduled technical interview the next day
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Applications Engineer at KLA-Tencor
Posted Oct 2, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Nov 2009 in Milpitas, CA (took a day)
Gave a presentation in the beginning of the interview. Then had individual interview with about 6 people. There was not set roles for each interviewer, they did not divide into personality interview, technical interview, stress test, behavioral type interview, etc. Got offer the next day.
Negotiation Details
Try to give them counter offer, they said no. I had another offer at the time.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Applications Engineer at KLA-Tencor
Posted Aug 15, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Hopewell Junction, NY (took 4 weeks)
I received a phone call to setup an appointment for a phone interview. Phone interview was quite normal. General behavioral questions. Then, a question to test if you can think quickly and clearly. The question was 'If you are asked to remove one state from the US, which one would you remove and why?'. I was selected for the on-site interview and was flown in a couple of weeks later. I had 5 1:1 interviews. There was one skills test. They'll teach you something about image processing and ask you questions based on that. Others were all just questions based on your resume.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Application Engineer at KLA-Tencor
Posted Aug 14, 2011 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Milpitas, CA (took a day)
You will have a introduction session followed by a test. Before the test, they will give a brief background knowledge for the test. Try google "histogram" before you go to the onsite interview. The test is not easy. After the test, you will have a 1-minute presentation and followed by 8 1:1 interview. The wholes 1:1 interview was pretty like interrogation and asking the same behavior question and yes very exhausting.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Applications Engineer at KLA-Tencor
Posted Aug 4, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took a day)
After I got an e-mail for an interview they asked me for available times. After 1 week, a Senior Application engineer called me and asked technical questions, especially about my resume. Overall, it was not a really hard conversation, he asked me what the company does, give some information about what we are doing, ....
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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