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      Software Engineer Interview

      24 Oct 2010
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Cupertino, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Oct 2010

      Interview

      The phone interview consisted of just questions about my past work experience. Then got called for an on-site interview. The interview lasted 5 hrs with 30 min interviews with 10 people, including one with HR. Most of the questions were about my past experience here as well. Included a lot of drawing on the white board to explain the architecture of software I had worked on. There were some programming questions as well, which were quite simple, like code for fibonacci series and factorial using both recursive and non-recursive methods, counting the number of 1s in a variable, writing code for a circular buffer. Also had questions on OS, like memory management, interrupt handling, preemption etc. I thought I did well, but did not receive an offer.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Write code for writing to a circular buffer.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Write code for generating a factorial/fibonacci for a given number using both recursive and non-recursive methods. Advantages and disadvantages of each method.
      2 Answers
      3

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