I applied through college or university. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Applied Materials in Oct 2020
Interview
The interview process was taken for an internship of 6 months and it was informed that the candidates would be taken into permanent payroll based on performance. The candidates were shortlisted based on the online test. There were total four rounds for the selection process: three technical interviews (with a few HR questions in later rounds ) followed by one management round. The process was very quick as some students were being interviewed for the first time while others are already in the second or third rounds. I have completed all the rounds of the process but the company representatives did not respond even after a few weeks of whether selected or rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some questions about C++, Java, data structures and algorithms, previous projects, interests and experiences. They also tested problem-solving and programming skills by the means of some general puzzles and a few programs in your preferred language.
I applied online. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA)
Interview
I interviewed for fun (and practice). The office was nice. No NDA so I can speak freely. First round was a zoom call where the interviewer seemed to know nothing about me and had the wrong resume info pulled up. He accused me of lying about my experience before realizing he was reading the wrong resume. Very professional.
Final round was an onsite. They told me it won't be technical - not that I mind, I dig some leetcode. I get there and, as it turns out, it is technical. The interviewers were like Thing 1 and Thing 2, good cop bad cop. They asked me some DevOps and SRE questions (not what I applied for, nor anything I do) and then asked some LLM questions. I answered correctly, they laughed and said I was wrong. At the end of the interview they backtracked on that. Managers seemed cool but I doubt the pay is competitive. Haven't heard back about an offer yet.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Treviso) in Jun 2026
Interview
Primo colloquio conoscitivo con reparto HR, a seguito di riscontro positivo da parte loro è seguito un secondo colloquio tecnico in sede con figure software e dell'area engineer dell'azienda abbastanza lungo
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Approccio alla progettazione software, focus sulla metodologia di lavoro
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