The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Applied Materials (New York, NY)
Interview
I was contacted by an HR from amat, after some days the interview was scheduled. The interviewer joined 5 min late, no apology for that. He introduced himself saying he is a manager at amat with 15 years of experience and has worked with Microsoft before. He then asked me to rate myself in c#, wpf, winforms, multi threading and data structures. Then gave me 2 easy dsa problems solved both of them. Then he asked a question about multithreading, I didn't know that , one question on wpf. I have no experience in desktop development I, told him already. Then he asked about my compensation and the offer in hand. He said he won't be able to match it since I am very weak in dsa(which I doubt since I solved both the problems he gave with otimized solutions) and multithreading and wpf(I have exp in web development) . After an hour I got a call from HR for scheduling second round. I asked her to drop my profile as I didn't like the managers attitude, I got a very negative vibe from him, he was very arrogant
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Rehovot) in Apr 2026
Interview
First stage: 90 minutes coding interview, basic questions about experience, 3 medium range C++ tasks:
1. About non-blocking interprocess communication
2. Don't remember
3. Big dataset normalization
Second stage: 90 minutes software design interview about multithreading data processing
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have huge vector of unsorted char values. Find the value which is bigger than 90% of values in vector. Can you do it in O(n)?
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Applied Materials (New Delhi) in May 2022
Interview
It was good.first round from someone from India very helpful guy while I was solving ds array questions.
Second round was at late night with foreigner and he was also good but it's like they mainly focus a lot on multhithreading so be prepare for that.i was not selected in second round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Total 2 rounds.
First round array ds questions like remove duplicates from array, find peak element in rotated sorted array, binary search , second highest max no and then muthithreading questions like lock and how to remove deadlock. They focus a lot on multhithreading concepts.
Second round - struct class diff (silly question)
Deadlock theory and then write code to show deadlock , then two big codes where you have to guess the output and it's also on multhithreading. What is lock.
List and linked list diff
How Dictionary is implemented internally.
In second round I was not selected.but surely this one will help someone so be prepare for multhithreading questions and very easy ds questions.
A brief overview of the organisation followed by my introduction and work. Then we went with the online platform for coding glider. The questions asked are below:
Internal implementation of Hash Map
Upside Down pyramid sum for a 2-D array which is made input using 1-D array and of N*M matrix.