I have interviewed with this company twice, and both recruiter screening calls were disappointing. The recruiters seemed disconnected from the technical aspects of the roles and focused almost entirely on checking boxes and aggressively pushing for a salary number. In one case, I was even told, "I don't want to waste time—just give me a number."
In my experience, recruiter quality at other semiconductor companies is significantly better, with conversations centered on understanding a candidate's background, skills, and motivations. Here, the process felt transactional, and the compensation discussions were well below market rates. Fortunately, the hiring managers and engineering teams were professional, respectful, and much more engaging than the recruiting experience.
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Experience with customer support, projects were you solved a big issue at the fab.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at ASML (Veldhoven) in Mar 2024
Interview
Application through career website, then an initial HR call, Finally, a 3 hour interview. The interview is not conducted in English, the language of the interview depends from which country the interviewers are from. No breaks for the three hour interview. In case of presentation, the hdmi cable does not always work. My presentation got frequently disconnected. The interviewers do not care about presentation, they only care about your ability to recite standardized answers. They do not even care about your problem-solving abilities or technical know-how.
Standard questions, introduce yourself, why do you apply this job? why should we hire you. What challenges you face during your work previously, why do you left the previous job
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I have a lot of experience candidate, why should I hire you
It was one half day onsite with 3 different interviews. You first introduce your experience, previous project. Then there was a case study, and which you can prepare before. In general not that difficult.
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What is the difficulty you have in your previous project.