I applied online. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in May 2021
Interview
Email from recruiting team, took two weeks to schedule a phone call with the hiring manager. A few mess up from the scheduling person caused another 2 weeks of delays. Full loop with 6 interviews, 2 System Design, 1 coding, 2 management style and one, god knows what it was but no question made sense.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- How many islands in a matrix
- System Deisgn: Build a blackjack gaming site
- System Design: Build Netflix
- Why should I not hire you?
- What is the hire you regretted the most?
- A few "will you drink the Apple Kool aid"
I applied online. I interviewed at Apple in June 2021
Interview
I went through 2 Rounds of interview and decided to drop out because of an awful interview experience.
Step 1: Recruiter Outreach
Step 2: Conversation with HM
Step 3: Coding Round using CoderPad
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Step 1 & Step 2: Your Experience and getting to know you better.
Step 3: Random stuff and no mention of Coding exercise or whatsoever.
Its your Day 1 at Apple and someone reaches out with a Production Issue and there are no devs around. How would you SOLVE the issue. (Since we are very Hands-on here, We expect managers to code)
How do you transfer a text file from one source to another so that data don't get compromised?
I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2020
Interview
The interview was informal in the lunch room - the first person I did talk with was precise, inspired, but a little distracted. Great people trying a turn around; they were dealing with an emergency and had to call off the informal interview. I'm hoping to get a real chance now we know how to reconnect.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Redesign the screen display from scratch for the next operating system....and go!