KLA·Software Engineer

KLA Software Engineer interview experience

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ChennaiPosted May 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The interviews for this role felt intense and multi-step, and they kept pushing toward technical depth even when the format didn’t look like pure coding.

I went through a sequence that included online rounds and then in-person stages, with time pressure showing up early.

Before I got to a hands-on portion, I had an online automated programming assessment, followed by a live Zoom round where I had to solve three problems in an hour. After that, I had another Zoom problem-solving discussion where I explained my approach on a given problem and walked through a solution using pseudo code.

Eventually I reached in-person technical and HR rounds. Even when I met two managers and HR onsite, there weren’t classic technical questions on the spot—HR

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