Engineering team, process chamber design
Engineering team, process chamber design
Really interesting, technically complex problems. Good work-life balance, good benefits, great team. Standard big company culture. You can excel, grow, and be promoted if you want to work hard, or you can sit by and coast at your level if that's more your style. Both can be acceptable.
The cyclical semiconductor industry makes it difficult to work with customers and teammates overseas when dealing with incomplete problem statements or fuzzy project objectives.
Enable world-class innovation without just saying it. Work less on coming up with new checkboxes with administrative program cycles and hoops to jump through on exciting new projects. Just fund and psychologically enable new prototypes and technologies.
Invest more in the far future rather than protecting the existing customer base.
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Applied Materials Interview Experiences
Mechanical Engineer
Got an email from the hiring manager two weeks after submitting my resume. I had a phone interview on the same day with the hiring manager and two other people. At the end of the interview, I was invited to an onsite interview. The next week, I had
Mechanical Engineer II
I was interviewed on campus by both engineers and their supervisors. I described my research experience during my master's program, and I also provided some design work from my master's research portfolio. I did research and coursework in the thermo-
Engineering Co-Op
The interviewer was chill, but provided no feedback. He didn't ask many questions and didn't show interest in my responses. He asked some questions on the resume and followed up with some technical questions.
Mechanical Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesJune 1, 2018Got an email from the hiring manager two weeks after submitting my resume. I had a phone interview on the same day with the hiring manager and two other people. At the end of the interview, I was invited to an onsite interview. The next week, I had
Mechanical Engineer II
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesNovember 19, 2013I was interviewed on campus by both engineers and their supervisors. I described my research experience during my master's program, and I also provided some design work from my master's research portfolio. I did research and coursework in the thermo-
Engineering Co-Op
United StatesOctober 30, 2025The interviewer was chill, but provided no feedback. He didn't ask many questions and didn't show interest in my responses. He asked some questions on the resume and followed up with some technical questions.
