Applied Materials

After applying, candidates receive an email confirmation; those advancing to interviews are contacted by a recruiter, and status is visible in the firm's Workday portal. The firm does not publish a fixed round count and treats interviews as two-way, recommending the STAR format for behavioral questions. Because each panel coordinates interviewers across functions, scheduling typically stretches a candidate's loop over multiple weeks rather than a single onsite, so both technical depth and concrete behavioral examples need to be ready well before the first conversation.

Summer internships run 8 to 12 weeks; co-ops run 6 to 8 months. New-graduate hiring is split into several separately named programs:

• Engineer Development Program (Rotational) – a rotational engineering program based in Gloucester, MA.
• [Accelerated Engineer Development Program](https://www.appliedmaterials.com/us/en/careers/new-grads-engineering.html) – a three-month training-and-lab-rotation track in Santa Clara, CA, for Process, Mechanical, Electrical, and Software Engineers, with permanent placement after.
• Common Systems Software Engineer Program – Santa Clara, CA; MS in computer science or computer engineering, working on equipment control software.
• Process Support Engineer Program (Rotational) – rotations across Hillsboro OR, Boise ID, Lehi UT, Taylor TX, Malta NY, Sherman TX, and Phoenix AZ.
• [Field Service Engineer Program](https://www.appliedmaterials.com/us/en/careers/new-grads-fse.html) – certification training followed by deployment to a customer fab in North America (Austin, Dallas, Phoenix, Chandler, Hillsboro, Boise, Albany).
• Global Supply Chain Program and Manufacturing Engineering Program – early-career tracks in supply chain and manufacturing engineering.

Each track has its own eligible degree fields and geographies, so for most candidates this is a choice between two or three programs, not a single application; because all NCG and intern roles are on-site, the program choice is also a relocation decision.

First, the early-career portfolio is unusually segmented: rather than a single generic NCG track, the firm publishes seven separately named programs – Engineer Development Rotational (Gloucester MA), Accelerated Engineer Development (Santa Clara), Common Systems Software (Santa Clara), Process Support Engineer (rotational across multiple US fabs), Field Service Engineer (training plus customer-site deployment), Global Supply Chain, and Manufacturing Engineering – each with its own degree eligibility and geography. Second, the work splits across three distinct operating modes – Santa Clara R&D, Austin manufacturing, and field deployment at customer fabs in Phoenix, Hillsboro, Albany, Boise, and elsewhere – so the program choice doubles as a choice between lab and design work, manufacturing, and customer-site service, with very different day-to-day shapes. The practical effect is that program-selection, not just role-selection, is the decision a candidate needs to get right before applying; the same firm offers very different early-career trajectories depending on which program admits them.