KLA Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
Updated Jan 21, 2026
based on 5 ratings
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Very positive
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33%
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Recruiter
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Campus Recruiting
33%
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) 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 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer (SDE) roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at KLA overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at KLA as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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1st round was a coding round,where you are given 2 quetions and then there will be a hackathon, no interviews, students where selected based on hackathon. The coding quetions difficulty will be easy to medium
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st one is Some DP question and 2nd is a permutation question.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at KLA (Surathakal) in Aug 2023
Interview
It was an Online Interview begin with formal Introduction and move on to some String Hashing Question and some Basic Stack related .Overall Experience Smooth and Hectic at the Same Time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
had 2 questions. First is find the minimum element from every window of size k in an array (Medium). Second one is find the Maximum Subsequence Sum which is less than or equal to given threshold value (Hard because of its constraints). Overall Good Experience.
First round :- online test 2 technical interview In both technical rounds they ask 2-2 questions of dsa, and some core topics 1 HR interview They ask system design Experience is good