Applied Materials came to our college midway through the placement schedule, and by that time, many students had already been placed in other companies. So, only 20 odd students appeared for the test. Due to this, they did not conduct the first round.

Second round was a coding round where we were given a few questions and one hour to code them. Questions included:

• Q1. Find how many bits are there in a byte in a hypothetical computer where 1 byte is not equal to 8 bits.
• Q2. Program to find the square root of a number up to 2 decimal places.
• Q3. Create a hash function for every word in the Oxford Dictionary.
• Q4. Program to find the 2nd largest element in an array.

Three students were selected for the final round. Program logic and efficiency of code were tested.

In the third round, they only asked a few brain teasers. The placement procedure only took a total of about 3 hours.

The most unexpected part was that they only asked brain teasers in the interview. Not a single technical question or HR question was asked.