I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Apple (Santa Clarita, CA) in July 2021
Interview
Hard, they ask you basic concepts of vlsi and timing. The whole flow of physical design and your projects. It was way too long and tiring. You need to know the basic concepts.
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overall 7 interviews, one hour each.
in depth questions of setup/hold time, transistor/diode based circuit questions. some logical thinking questions.
intensive interview process they kept adding more interveiws,reached final interview and they moved on with other candidate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
setup/hold in depth questions. in FF and latch with skew.
The interview is around 45-60 mins, a deep dive into my resume; the Interviewer is nice, provides guidance to the correct answers, I didn't get to the next round of the interview.
There were three rounds of interviews. I believe each was with a different person on the team. It was a broad range of technical, communication, and logical questions that they asked.