I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at KLA (Chennai) in Jan 2012
Interview
Kla tencor came for our campus placement . It offered us a package of Rs. 700000-800000 .
Interview consisted of :-
1) Written Test (75 minutes )
23 Objective Technical Questions from C++, C, OS, Data Structure.(Basically Output Prediction)
2 Programming Questions
10 Aptitude Questions
2) Technical Round (30 minutes)
Discussion on difficult questions of Written Test.
3) Programming Round (60 minutes)
4) HR Round (60 minutes)
Written test consisted of questions which were outside B.Tech scope . The expectation of interviewers is unnecessarily too high as KLA Tencor has bad training facility .
Some of the interview questions are size of virtual destructor, constructor , 4 byte pairing , virtual mapping in functions etc, Memory allocation , deallocation of objects and variables, recognition of error type (Stack Overflow, Linker Error, Compile Time error) etc.
Some of the cons for this company are :- 14 working hours/day , less increment in salary, worst interview process and unfair selection .
I applied online. I interviewed at KLA (Singapore) in Apr 2026
Interview
HR started a friendly call and email interview set-up with the hiring team in a week. But from there, everything went downhill. HR asked for my past payslips in the beginning and I wasn't even interviewed yet. It was the first redflag. Then, HR gets quiet after receiving my expected salary. The interview itself was the worst. The interviewer was distracted, kept thinking and mumbling about her meetings. She was not a true software engineer because she couldn't accept that there can be multiple solutions to a problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Example code review and application development concepts
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 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.