Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at KLA with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 45% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 39 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at KLA overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at KLA as a Software Engineer according to 39 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 24%
Phone interview: 19%
Presentation: 12%
Skills test: 11%
Group panel interview: 10%
Background check: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Drug test: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 2%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at KLA (Migdal Ha`Emeq) in Jan 2026
Interview
The interview was a group interview, I was interviewed twice. The first interview was easy with two problems that I had to solve. The second interview was with a team manager, half in English.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function in C that accepts a byte and returns how many ones there are in one byte.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at KLA (Coimbatore) in Dec 2025
Interview
We had a hackathon for two days in which iterative shortlistings was done to select the people. Before this, a basic coding round where 2 questions were asked. Those who were shortlisted went into the hackathon process. Two rounds of hackathon spanned over 2 days happened and the results were announced at the end of day 2.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a hackathon question that involved wafers and dies - based on semiconductor industry.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at KLA (Chennai) in Aug 2025
Interview
There were 4 rounds out of which
3 are technical rounds and one is an HR Round
mostly Data Structures and Algorithms they asked on Arrays
they asked math probability puzzles
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 DSA Question was
maximum portion of rectangular area in a given graph