I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple in Apr 2016
Interview
One phone screen. I had applied long time back, recruiter called me to know my strengths and skill set. Then passed onto another recruiter who took some time to set up a phone screen. It was half an hour phone screen. Waited for a day, then inquired. Got the ding mail.
Given that I had other companies who were interested in me. I had to make time for the phone screening by de-prioritizing other companies . Unless they pursue you strongly dont bother wasting time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a peek using a existing iterator next and hasnext function.
Interviewer was interested in correct syntax.
Around 2 months after I submitted my resume for Apple software engineer position, I got a call from the hiring manager. He asked me what was the good day for the interview. It took half day for meeting 5 people. It was long hour interview for me. Each interviewer spent ~ 30 minutes and asked ~ 4 questions. Each interviewer asked questions in the different areas.
6 rounds. 1 Technical Screening. Then onsite loop consisted of 4 rounds of behavioral, 2 technicals, and 1 sys design. Had an additional Hiring Manager round since I was borderline.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LC Mediums and mentorship based behavioral questions.
6 rounds. Started with phone screen with HM about past projects.
Onsite rounds
1: OOD
2. Multi threading
3. Java design pattern and Immutable classes
4. HM
All the rounds were heavily focused on Java