I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at KLA (Milpitas, CA) in May 2020
Interview
Applied through LinkedIn and the recruiter forwarded up with a few questions such as start date etc. Had an online interview with the hiring manager who briefly described the job position, went through my resume and asked me to solve a coding question relating to convolutions.
Made it through to the "onsite" interviews (it was online however, citing covid reasons). First round was a 20 minute technical presentation (could be related to a project or thesis - they prefer thesis) followed by three, 45-minute interviews with the members of the team. The first interviewer forgot that he had to conduct my interview that day, so it was a relatively short interview. The other two interviews were pure technical combined with a few coding questions.
It's been a little over a month and they still haven't gotten back to me yet, despite repeated emails.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
q1.) Coding question: Implement 1D convolution
q2.) Coding Question: Import an image and grid-ify the enitre image using matplotlib library
Project interview with hiring manger. Talked about recent projects with focus on deep learning and GenAI. Then asked to deep dive into one project with technical details. At the end asked some behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are your skills and what type of technical person are you?
Received an interview by tech people. Questions are about my background. I was asked about my projects and past experience. There is no technical question related. The process is smooth and relaxed.
Received an interview by tech people. Questions are about my background. I was asked about my projects and past experience. There is no technical question related. The process is smooth and relaxed.
KLA interviews FAQs
Algorithm Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at KLA with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Algorithm Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 16 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 Algorithm Engineer according to 16 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 23%
One on one interview: 20%
Presentation: 16%
Group panel interview: 14%
Background check: 11%
Skills test: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Personality test: 2%
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