I applied online. I interviewed at Lam Research in Jan 2025
Interview
Got an interview invite the day after I submitted my resume. First, it's a 20-minute phone screen. Got a text from HR by the end of the day, informing me that I'll be invited on-site.
On-site was a 50-minute presentation about my PhD work and three-panel interviews with multiple people. The onsite can be quite intense, got a lot of questions, some are really detailed about the research, and some are open-ended which requires a lot of instant thinking.
The position focuses on hardware and requires hardware troubleshooting experience. I'd definitely recommend emphasizing this if you were invited for an interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If we were to commercialize your instrument, what can we do to make sure we could make 10 exact the same products?
I applied online. I interviewed at Lam Research (Freemont, PA)
Interview
They sent an email a day before and asked me for a 30-minute phone-based interview. After I sent them availability the interviewer sent me a teams link as well as a phone number to contact. The interview went past 30 min around 45-50 min. The interviewer was very polite and gave me time to frame my answers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have any hardware experience and how do you deal with a instrument issues, how do you try to fix them
Phone screening + 2 tech interviews + 1 virtual onsite. The whole process is very long and technique-oriented. Frankly speaking, there are many talented and smart engineers so the entire interview process is very stressful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you consider the heat transfer in a design?