KLA·Software Engineer

KLA Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Palo Alto, CAPosted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with interviews that felt fine in the room, but the follow-through went badly.

The environment felt very “high confidence,” the interviewer was even late to the Zoom call, and while the interview itself went well, I later got effectively ghosted.

I also had a separate process that dragged on through more than five rounds of on-site technical interviews. A lot of the interviews asked for prepared presentation-style knowledge, and it was mainly technical rather than professional in the HR sense—there were HR mistakes and lack of responsiveness when things needed fixing. Honestly, the amount of time wasted made the whole journey feel unprofessional, and neither path ended

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