Applied Materials Software Engineer interview experience

In one 90-minute coding interview, I was asked basic questions about my experience first, and then I worked through three medium-range C++ tasks. One was about non-blocking interprocess communication, another involved normalization over a big dataset, and one task was open-ended enough that I didn’t retain the exact wording later—though I remember it still felt like the same level of systems-focused problem solving.

The next stage was another 90 minutes, but this time it was a software design interview centered on multithreading and data processing. After that, there was a managerial onsite