I applied through college or university. I interviewed at KLA (Coimbatore) in Dec 2025
Interview
We had a hackathon for two days in which iterative shortlistings was done to select the people. Before this, a basic coding round where 2 questions were asked. Those who were shortlisted went into the hackathon process. Two rounds of hackathon spanned over 2 days happened and the results were announced at the end of day 2.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a hackathon question that involved wafers and dies - based on semiconductor industry.
I applied online. I interviewed at KLA (Singapore) in Apr 2026
Interview
HR started a friendly call and email interview set-up with the hiring team in a week. But from there, everything went downhill. HR asked for my past payslips in the beginning and I wasn't even interviewed yet. It was the first redflag. Then, HR gets quiet after receiving my expected salary. The interview itself was the worst. The interviewer was distracted, kept thinking and mumbling about her meetings. She was not a true software engineer because she couldn't accept that there can be multiple solutions to a problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Example code review and application development concepts
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at KLA (Migdal Ha`Emeq) in Jan 2026
Interview
The interview was a group interview, I was interviewed twice. The first interview was easy with two problems that I had to solve. The second interview was with a team manager, half in English.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function in C that accepts a byte and returns how many ones there are in one byte.
Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at KLA with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 38 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at KLA overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at KLA as a Software Developer according to 38 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Phone interview: 19%
Presentation: 12%
Skills test: 12%
Group panel interview: 10%
Background check: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Other: 2%
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