Applied Materials Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Negative

Santa Clara, CAPosted Apr 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through three rounds with managers, each time digging into the complexities of projects I’d worked on.

One of the interviews involved designing a distributed system and walking through how to manage different traffic loads.

The interviews wrapped up quickly, and I even received a verbal offer the next week. The frustrating part came after that: it took four weeks to get the offer letter, and the recruiter kept saying finance hadn’t approved it yet. It felt totally unexpected and dragged out in a way that didn’t match how smoothly the interviews had moved.

I did get stuck in limbo for a long time, and that delayed follow-through left a sour feeling even though the technical discussions

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