Applied Materials Software Engineer interview experience

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RehovotPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial HR phone call that lasted about 15 minutes, I moved into a hiring-manager interview and then a team-member round.

The hiring-manager discussion took about an hour, and I remember the later steps also being in that same longer, face-to-face cadence. The overall process felt like it had multiple handoffs, and there was noticeable time spent waiting between stages, which made the momentum dip after each interview.

Once I got through the interviews, I had a final HR return with the decision and some feedback. The structure itself was fairly straightforward—HR first, then manager and team, then wrap-up—but the waiting time after each interview was higher than I expected, so it felt slower than it should

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