Lam Research Software Engineer interview experience

There were also technical questions mixed in, and even early on I felt like they wanted to understand how I’d apply what I’d done before rather than just recite buzzwords.

After that, I moved into panel interviews—five to six people total—still over the phone. The format blended emotional intelligence style questions with technical and background topics, and the people I spoke with seemed knowledgeable. The HR part of the process felt unusually structured too: she walked me through what the job actually involved in advance, and once I said I was comfortable with the scope, she set up the