Applied Materials Staff Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Interview is simple and easy... directly went to the in depth questions

Q1. Work experience mentioned in resume
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Q1. Previous work-related question
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Q1. Why you wanted to join
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I wanted to join because of the challenging projects and opportunities for growth.
• Exciting projects that will push my skills to the next level

• Opportunities for career advancement and professional development

• Positive company culture and values align with my own

• Desire to work with a talented team and learn from experienced engineers
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Q2. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years
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In 5 years, I see myself as a senior staff engineer leading a team of talented individuals, contributing to innovative projects, and continuously learning and growing in my role.
• Leading a team of engineers

• Contributing to innovative projects

• Continuous learning and growth in role
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Basic coding, normal editor, windows

DSA-strings (advanced)

Q1. Discussion about role and projects.
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Q1. Design a key-value store.
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A key-value store is a data storage system that allows users to store, retrieve, and manage data based on unique keys.
• Use a hash table data structure to store key-value pairs.

• Implement methods for adding, updating, and deleting key-value pairs.

• Include features like data replication, sharding, and data partitioning for scalability.

• Consider data consistency and fault tolerance mechanisms.

• Examples: Redis, MongoDB, Cassand
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Q1. C++ Related questions
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Q1. It was like discussing the projects and why some technical decision was made. 1-2 coding questions. Only pseudo code.
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Q2. Discuss the current role
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Q3. Current project details and experience
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Coding test with few SQL queries.

Coding round coding round coding round

Q1. How are you doing
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Q2. What is your name
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Q1. String Manipulation
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Q2. List of lists and table updation
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Updating a list of lists and table in a structured manner.
• Create a list of lists to store multiple lists of data.

• Update the lists within the main list as needed.

• Use a table structure to organize and display the data.

• Update the table with the latest information from the lists.
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Q1. Write Amplification, Wear leveling basics
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Write amplification is the ratio of data written to the SSD to the actual data written by the host. Wear leveling is a technique to distribute write and erase cycles evenly across all blocks of flash memory.
• Write amplification is a measure of how much data is written to the SSD compared to the actual data written by the host.

• Wear leveling is a technique used to distribute write and erase cycles evenly across all blocks...read more
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Q2. SSD Architecture
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Attitude round would be simple for a campus hiring you would be asked a couple of puzzles in case of campus hiring. It would be more elaborate 45 minutes duration.

Coding test would consist of life, putting in case of a campus interviews, in case of campus interviews is it would be mostly white board test.

Q1. There would be multiple technical round with the team members and the manager. The topic would be dependent on the experience of the candidate and the focus of the hiring team.
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Q1. Hey Sir, Roundwood, try to determine the candidates motivation for joining the company and his employment history along with the qualities like collaboration leadership, decision making.
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