Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Applied Materials with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 48% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 32 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Applied Materials overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Applied Materials as a Software Engineer according to 32 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 21%
Phone interview: 19%
Skills test: 19%
Group panel interview: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 10%
Background check: 8%
Presentation: 5%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
Personality test: 2%
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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Rehovot) in Nov 2015
Interview
I was invited to a concentrated interviews day with other candidates.
The meeting included a test, review on the test with the team manager and afterwards (after a lunch break), a technical interview with the team manager. The whole process took about 5 hours.
After a week I was summoned to a HR interview.
A week later, I got the offer.
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