I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at KLA (Austin, TX) in May 2013
Interview
Interview:
Recruiter setup the initial phone screening with the recruiting manager.
The phone screening lasted for about 35 minutes. Started with my field of experience and depth into the design and architecture. After the phone screening, I have been asked to come for the personal interview. It lasted for 2 and half hours with the 3 different group of people. Because of one the team member was absent that day, I had to come again for 45 minutes.
People/Culture:
The culture is unusual for me. They do follow AGILE process but it is not really AGILE, they pretty much end up following waterfall methodology because of the product development.
The change management system is not great. They use lot of braching, developer has to merge the code. The timings are flexible if you are delivering your tasks in time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of them asked me about university. One of the panel member did not speak a word.
They did not ask more technical questions to me, just overall experience.
I ended up asking more about the company and the interviewer.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at KLA
Interview
First round was online hackerrank AI interview. There were 3 questions. If we solve one question then only next question will be listed. one question is easy level. 2nd question is of medium level difficulty. Was stuck in 2nd question.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at KLA in May 2025
Interview
Several rounds of interview,
Screening with the recruiter.
Technical interview with many team member. ~2 hours process.
Interview with hiring manager.
Interview with head of the department.
There was no onsite interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at KLA (Chennai) in July 2025
Interview
There was a video call interview round for KLA Chennai
The panel was online and i was given a coding question.
They had a coding platform
There were test cases to be passed.
The panel was very patient and helped me with hints.
The coding round was of moderate difficulty related to an arraylist type solution for the question.
I had forgotten the syntax for the C++ stl.
So i was not slected for next round of interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself.
What tech stack have you worked on?
Can u code the solution to this problem statement and have it pass the test cases?