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Updated Feb 20, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Creative at Apple
Posted Feb 21, 2012
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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 Oct 2011 in Burlingame, CA (took 6 months)
the interview was great- I had the opportunity to express my interest in the job and ask questions pertaining to the job- I met with people that I have worked with for several years and was treated as if I was interviewing for the first time with the company. It was a good experience for me as an interviewee, though I felt as though I was being evaluated as an outsider, in spite of my previous 4 plus years of loyal employment with the company. The interview gave me a chance to express myself based on my skills and experience, though it didn't feel as if I was considered at all based on my previous 4 years of loyal service in the job.
Negotiation Details
I had been used for several years on a part time basis doing the exact job that I was interviewing for, and I had been actually doing the job that I was interviewing for, though not yet promoted to. I was employed as a part-time employee at the time, though I had expressed my interest in full time employment at least six months prior to the interview. I was initially offered a full time position at a lower level than I was interviewing for, but I declined the offer. Eventually I was offered the full time position that I was interviewing for.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Creative at Apple
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Glendale, CA (took 5 days)
This was my 2nd time around with Apple. The first hiring event was unusual. We were led in a ritual of extreme Apple worship & self-adoration. I had prepared fervently, being sure to participate with high enthusiasm. I was offered a 2nd interview, via email. That was 1:1 with a young gal, which I think I botched (to be honest) by trying too hard - by not providing very concise answers, but was overly excited & all over the place about Apple & the Creative position. In the desire to convey my sincere interest, awareness & love for Apple, I asked her questions about about the company that she didn't know. I even busted my butt making them a short, incredible video called "A Tribute To Apple", and gave them DVD copies. This was also to demonstrate my abilities for the Creative position. I spent days perfecting it - it meant that much to me. When I asked about it, no one even watched it.
Avoid this big mistake --These folks are tuned in / motivated solely with their own sector -- the retail store -- and don't care if you know what Apple's stock is, their history, or their current presence in the education industry, or their inroads in the film industry where Avid Technologies prevails. This sort of great-heartedness toward Apple may only work against you.
These young people are on a very narrow, small-minded track, and will not appreciate your character, level of care, depth of knowledge and love for the company. It's almost 100% about personality.. about being very fast on your feet, concise with the right answers, and a simple love for the product. It's about being a right fit for an extremely limited selective process -- a process that, in the long run, is the wrong kind of "think different", in terms of people value. It comes across as surprisingly reckless, roughshod, even irresponsible as an approach to evaluating people.
During these frequent hiring events, they invite vastly more people than they could ever use, or even adequately evaluate, for that matter. It's like a crap shoot. The overwhelming majority of candidates MUST BE eliminated. So, based on one slight wrong move, or one small whim on the part of someone judging you during these fast-paced sessions, a lot of highly-qualified gold quickly gets passed over.
It comes across as cheap, disingenuous.. a game designed almost exclusively for, and marketed to - youth... those who are so starstruck & enamored over Apple, that they don't really mind getting shot down multiple times over the course of weeks, OR EVEN MONTHS, through the Nintendo levels of Apple's retail hiring. (One guy conducting the event admitted that much, telling us that it took him many hiring events over 7 months to finally get in. Some object to this treatment of humanity. Most companies don't indulge themselves in such hiring practices.. perhaps those companies who still retain some small vestige of conscience and human worth.
Of course money matters.
The problem is not that money matters.
The problem is when money is ALL that matters.
At the first event, they didn't serve coffee, but at least gave us water. This last time around, they didn't even offer water. The feeling is that they're Apple, and because they're *so* cool, they don't have to. What's next? Pay to interview?
This all smacks of directives concocted in corporate backrooms, with the objective of milling quickly though large swaths of people.. at the least possible cost. An odd practice for a company who regards "people as its greatest asset". (Actually, things like money, stock, real estate are "assets" - human beings are worth much more). It's really about monetary growth and market dominance - only. The "people value" is purely utilitarian, not intrinsic. That's a long-observed development in corporate life. You kinda "have what you hate".
It's not the same Apple anymore. What it is, is an enormous egotism, a company high on itself, drunk on its own success, with the disgusting, shameful attitude of assuming on other people's time and expense - that it so richly lavishes upon itself. That is, to great excess and extremes.
This time around, I was very relieved NOT to go on to the next precarious level of Super Mario.
For me, the deep admiration I so long held for Apple, is now utterly destroyed.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Creative at Apple
Posted Dec 2, 2010
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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 Nov 2010 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)
Was brought in and interview lasted 4 hours. People seemed very bright but overwhelmed and distracted (they obviously were stressed about finishing work rather than spending time at an interview). Questions were very focused on task at hand (creative position). There was one individual that was a bit too pro Apple, and made it seem like it was sink or swim at Apple ( excuse me but its sink or swim in any job in my book).
Would interview again, but dislike the lack of input after interviewing on why another candidate might have been selected.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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