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Engineering Program Manager at Apple
Posted May 26, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 3 weeks)
Very thorough - three separate onsite interviews with multiple people. Initial phone call with recruiter was half an hour long, just a quick resume review and typical "what do you want out of a job" questions. Technical people asked high level technical questions, even though it is not really a technical job, to make sure you understand the technology you will support. Lots of troubleshooting questions, hypothetical situations, etc.
Know your resume! They will read it (all of it) and quiz you about it. Even stuff from a decade ago. Be honest and be enthusiastic about the company and the position.
Everyone I interviewed with was enthusiastic about working for Apple and seemed to enjoy their jobs.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Engineering Program Manager at Apple
Posted May 21, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Mar 2010 in Cupertino, CA (took 3 months)
Typical and professional, except at the end. Interviewed 13+ folks over the course of 2 months then,just "nothing". A rejection letter or something would have been expected after all that time. Wonder if that's how they treat their folks? The interviews themselves were very professional and not terribly difficult, pretty typical for program management stuff. Folks on their side seemed very tired but they did seem like they had some good team work. I heard (rumor) that they get all the candidates and only make a decision at the very end. Moral of the story....it aint over till it's over, so don't think because you are in the home stretch you will hear something or for that matter, even a letter of rejection. So it goes, on to the next :)
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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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Engineering Program Manager at Apple
Posted Apr 24, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Cupertino, CA (took 6 weeks)
Over the course of 6 weeks, I had two on-site interviews totalling 16 interviewers. After each set of on-site interviews, I would get no response from the recruiter. I was in a very busy time with my current job and I was bending over backwards to make time for them. I finally received a response for a 3rd round of in-site interviews with another four interviewers. 5 minutes after receiving confirmation of the interview (through e-mail) I received a phone call from the recruiter that an offer was accepted by someone else. Who does that? Why would they even tell me I was being brought in for a 3rd round if they already made an offer to someone?
I was constantly reassured by the recruiter that technical questions would not be part of the interview because it was a project management job, not a technical job, but I had 3 interviewers who asked nothing but technical questions and I was ill-prepared for them.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineering Program Manager at Apple
Posted Mar 30, 2010
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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 Mar 2010 (took a day)
Email correspondence with company recruiter, leading to phone interview a few days ago with hiring manager, consisting of both non-technical and very few technical questions. Few questions regarding personal and career goals and previous technical experience and achievements in the past few years. Still waiting on reponse and/or invitation for in-person interview in Cupertino.
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Engineering Program Manager at Apple
Posted Jan 19, 2010
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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 Sep 2009 in Cupertino, CA (took 6+ weeks)
I was an employee referral. The interview process was quite long. Lots of time elapsed between the phases. I had 2 or 3 phone interviews, plus 2 face-to-face interview days (5 - 7 people each day). Quite rigorous. The people were quite nice and professional and none of the questions were too difficult. I am not sure why they didn't hire me except I didn't hit it off with one person on the second day of interviews. Oh, well..
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering Program Manager at Apple
Posted Aug 16, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)
Initially had a phone interview and then in person interview - I met 10 people including the recruiter. The questions were both technical and non-technical. The interview lasted for about 6 hours. The question that I found difficult was " Where do you see yourself in 5 years and how will this job help you acheive that goal?"
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering Program Manager at Apple
Posted Mar 18, 2009
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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 Nov 2008 in Cupertino, CA (took 2 weeks)
Everyone who had anything to do with the position wanted to interview. This meant multiple half-day sessions over two weeks. At every interview session, people were swapped in at the last moment. There were multiple opinions as to what the position was about, and some of the interviewers were obviously antagonistic to others. There was also lots of rescheduling of interviews, so expect that you'll need half-days completely open over a number of days
There was very little directed questioning, and little discussion along the line of "how does your past experience qualify you for the position"?
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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