Lam Research Software Engineer interview experience

I started with early outreach, but it took a long time—months sometimes—for the recruiter to actually reconnect and set anything up. One interview ended up feeling like the interviewer wasn’t really engaged with my background and kept leaning toward more surface-level educational details instead.

When interviews did happen, they were mostly familiar. I had an HR screening where we covered who I was and what I’d done, and then I moved into additional rounds with managers. The structure followed a fairly typical pattern: HR early on, then one or more manager conversations, and in some rounds