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      Scientific Algorithm Development Engineer Interview

      29 Aug 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at KLA (New York, NY) in Feb 2022

      Interview

      Consisted of five (5) interviews: one phone screen, one interview with the team software architect, two interviews with senior team members (PhD physicists), and one mostly personality interview. All fairly professional, however I was a bit taken aback by the interviews with the senior team members. They asked almost strictly theoretical questions from undergrad physics and numerical analysis -- nothing applied. The recruiter I worker with was positively awful, however. Took over a month from date of intention to make me an offer to the first verbal offer. Written offer maybe two weeks after that.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Write down Schrodinger's equation
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Write the electric potential of a point charge at radius r of an electron
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Prove the time reversal property of the Fourier transform
      Answer question

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