Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Lam Research with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Lam Research overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Lam Research as a Data Scientist according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 60%
Phone interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
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They call you for a stipulated time for the interview and make you wait for hours. I had to wait for over 2.5 hours.
It seemed to me that the company didn't know what skills to look for and had no idea about candidate profiling, because I could see a great and utterly confused lot turning up for the interview.
I am talking about a data scientist position and many people in the pool had nearly zero credibility in data science. The highest qualified person I spoke to has been a macro (excel) expert since ~4 years. Whereas data scientist is a completely different role.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Lam Research in Feb 2026
Interview
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)
Interview
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Experience and past projects. Mostly on application of data science.