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Updated May 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Specialist at Apple
Posted May 22, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 in London, ON (Canada) (took 4 months)
I applied online via the apple website when I first heard the position was opening in Feb/March. I received an email from a recruiter asking me when I was available for a phone interview. A few days later I was told no phone interview, that I would be notified in April of a seminar. End of April, I receive a notification to sign up for a seminar. Looks like they were doing 3 days of seminars with about 3 seminars each day, about 30 people in each one. I showed up to the seminar, all very friendly. It was a great presentation that made you want to work there more. You had to introduce the person next to you...They asked a lot of questions like what can do you do with these items.. etc.. I answered as many questions as possible. We split up into groups of about 5 with an Apple employee.. they asked questions about situations and ended with you trying to act our a scene/situation. I stayed for a bit to tell them how I enjoyed the seminar. That night I received an email saying I've made it to the next stage. 2 days later I had a one on one interview with 2 Apple employees. They asked why you want to work for Apple.. and situation questions. My interview was towards the end of the day and they seemed like they were running out of questions. I made it very clear I wanted to work for apple and how passionate I am. I talked a lot about my previous customer service experience. I was very high energy and enthusiastic. I thought the interview went well but I knew it's such a competitive job. 2 days later I received an email saying they have gone ahead with other candidates. I was very disappointed. I hope to try to apply again. I have noticed that there are still posting for the job on the Apple website and they were not able to tell us when the Apple store would open in Masonville mall. I will try again!
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Mac Specialist (Apple Store) at Apple
Posted May 15, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Vancouver, BC (Canada) (took 1 week)
Applied online then after a few months got an email from a hiring rep to schedule a phone interview. Phone interview went on for about 30 mins asking the usual question eg. Why do you want to work for apple? What's your favorite app? Then a few weeks later, I got an email to attend a group interview. The group interview was done in a hotel downtown. Then another 1:1 interview with 2 managers
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Mac Genius at Apple
Posted Apr 28, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Vancouver, BC (Canada) (took 4 months)
Had 3 phone interviews before the I was called for the hiring event which took place at Hyatt Hotel.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Mac Specialist (Apple Store) at Apple
Posted Apr 11, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Calgary, AB (Canada) (took a day)
It was a high energy group interview with little focus on specific people. The people who were doing the interview were really high energy and were obviously trying to be fun. It was very difficult to try to stand out among the crowd due to the open ended questions that were being asked.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Mac Specialist (Apple Store) at Apple
Posted Jan 28, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 3 days)
The first stage was a panel of interviewers viewing a group of us interacting with on another on a number of case study situations. The second stage was a one on one interview. The last stage was an interview with the senior Human Resources Manager.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Personality Test.
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Assistant Store Manager at Apple
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 5 months)
Initially a recruiter for Apple contacted me after seeing my profile on LinkedIn. Advised that Apple needed to move quickly on a newly created position. Almost 3 mos before first 1:1 interview. Strange interviews - advised it was all about "the fit". Questions were met with vague responses.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Creative (Apple Store) at Apple
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 1 week)
The interview was very organized. first we all had to wait outside of a conference room in a downtown Hyatt hotel. once the interview started, all the apple employees would cheer us into the room. it took about 2 hours total. it consisted of, first, introducing all the staff running the interview (4 of them) and we all had to go in turn introducing ourselves and something interesting about ourselves (we were encouraged to be out of the box with that). then, they showed us several videos presenting what it would be like to work for apple retail.
we then broke into 3 groups of 9 with each having an apple employee run a discussion group. they would act out different scenarios that might happen with employees and we would in turn have to comment and make decisions based on what they said.
finally we were giving a chance to ask them some questions and fill out a questionnaire that tested our familiarity with technology terms (i.e.- what is Wifi, and what are 3 apple products use it?)
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Mac Specialist (Apple Store) at Apple
Posted Jul 25, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Mississauga, ON (Canada) (took 1 week)
My interview process was a bit different as I was invited through a hiring event for Apple.
I thought the group interview process was amazing especially interacting with all the people and the employees were so nice!
But then I had the 1:1 interview. There was a guy and a woman interviewing me. I personally thought I did really well. I was confident , answered all their questions properly, even made jokes so its not too serious. The guy was great but he didn't ask me a lot of questions. The woman asked me more questions. But the woman looked funny at me throughout my entire interview and then they sent me a rejection the very same day via email. I was really upset because I actually thought I did pretty awesome. Anyways, I'm done with Apple for sometime now. :|
The only reason I have a negative experience is coz of my experience. Mite be different for other people. So if its your first time, I'd say go for it. But I must say its really disappointing when they reject you especially when you did your part well.
Its sadder when you know u did well, and it wasn't your fault that you didn't get the job.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Creative (Apple Store) at Apple
Posted Jul 19, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Vancouver, BC (Canada) (took 2 weeks)
I applied for a completely different position with apple on their website. They randomly contacted me and told me I was invited to come to their "invitation only" hiring event, which was held in a swanky hotel in downtown vancouver. I went to the group interview, we had to do presentation by ourselves and a presentation with a group. I got called back for a second 1:1 interview after that.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Apple Store Leader Program 2011 In Montreal at Apple
Posted Mar 21, 2011 — 4 of 4 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Montreal, QC (Canada) (took a day)
I want to contribute something back to glassdoor.com since it helped me a lot in preparing for the interview.
I received an email saying that I was selected as a candidate to attend their hiring event, which was to occur in a week from then. Within this week, you have enough time to get yourself prepared, and should read up a bit about Apple if you don't know anything about the company.
The hiring event was held at a 5-star hotel. Once I got there, I had to sign in and fill up the "availability" sheet (in case you get selected, they will check your availabilities for the next interview). I waited for 15 mins and meanwhile, I was about to chat with other candidates. We were 8 candidates in total. Everyone was nice and friendly.
We were brought into a room where Apple employees would clap while you enter the room. We were then given the time to mingle with all the Apple workers and just tried to get to know each other. I like small groups because I managed to talk to everyone and get myself introduced. I encourage you to make the effort to know the names of all the Apple workers. If too complicated, write it down for yourself.
Afterwards, they showed us a video about Apple's work environment in general, and introduced the Leadership Program. It was very brief, nothing different from the job post on their website.
In the end, we were split into 2 teams and we each had a different case problem to deal with. We had 20 mins to come up with the solutions. Then we were to make a presentation for 15 mins. The questions were:
1. What are the ideas for a LONG-TERM success to sell iPAD in RETAIL stores? (the words in capital are the important points in my opinion).
2. What are the ABC's of unexpected services that Apple should provide? For example, the team answered A for Accessibility, B for Building relationship with customers, and C for Community.
After the presentation, we were given some feedback from the recruiters. Then we just chatted a bit. That was the end of the hiring event.
They called us within an hour to let us know whether we made it or not. Unfortunately I didn't make it to the 2nd round. But after attending the session, I still want to work at Apple store and will apply for job positions. Maybe they are correct, I am not the "Leader" type but I know I can do well if it were for another job position.
p.s. During the hiring event, I met an awesome friend whom I am still keeping in touch. It's also good to keep in mind that networking is important.
Overall, the experience was a lot of fun but it could be challenging because the case problem is not always easy.
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