I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Applied Materials in Aug 2014
Interview
Interview process as mentioned in the call letter
- Written test (25 aptitude and 25 technical) for 1 hour
- Technical programming : 1 hour
- Technical face to face : 1 hour
Written test review:
Aptitude consisted of the questions from the following topics
- A large Cube painted on all its side and divided into 64 pieces, determine how many cubes has no painted side, two painted sides, three painted sides
- Find the missing number in the series
- Blood relations
- count the trailing zeroes of 302!
- areas of square, circle when they are inscribed inside themselves
- Clock
- Frog jump problem
- percentage
- Union and intersections
Technical aptitude
- Inorder, preorder, post order traversals of normal trees, BST
- CMOS full form
- 4X1 Multiplexer
- Output of some simple programs
- Priority scheduling algos,
- fork() call
- QUEUEs
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Try to complete all the questions, if you aren't completing all the questions you are no way clearing the round
Started with HR call for like 30 minutes where the HR explain about the role, ask about my background etc. Tehn technical revivew with 2 leetcode questions where the first one was basick and the second was medium
3 rounds
1 coding round where you need to solve the problem in paper
2 Technical interview asked based on whether you were getting hired as Dev or QA
3 Managerial round
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Applied Materials in Oct 2025
Interview
Campus interview process included online aptitude test, C programming questions, basic networking discussion, and technical interview. Difficulty moderate, interviewers professional, feedback clear, overall fair experience with reasonable timelines and expectations.