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 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 30 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Applied Materials overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Applied Materials as a Software Engineer according to 30 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Phone interview: 18%
Group panel interview: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 10%
Background check: 8%
Presentation: 5%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Personality test: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Applied Materials (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in May 2025
Interview
Prepare for a Zoom interview with basic LeetCode questions like binary search, two sum, reverse a string, palindrome check, merge sorted arrays, and finding the max subarray sum and other basic leetecode questions
3 rounds
1 coding round where you need to solve the problem in paper
2 Technical interview asked based on whether you were getting hired as Dev or QA
3 Managerial round
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Applied Materials in Oct 2025
Interview
Campus interview process included online aptitude test, C programming questions, basic networking discussion, and technical interview. Difficulty moderate, interviewers professional, feedback clear, overall fair experience with reasonable timelines and expectations.