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Updated Apr 29, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Apr 29, 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 Cupertino, CA (took 4+ weeks)
I've interviewed on two separate occasions for hardware positions with Apple. Most (but not all) of the interviewers are nice enough. First interview had circuit design questions, the second did not. Both interviews were divided into several 1 on 1 interviews, 30 minutes each. If you're not selected (which I wasn't) they just leave you hanging. At first I thought it was just an lazy recruiter, but the second time it happened I realized that it must be a policy to not contact you or respond in any way if you are not chosen. Not a way to leave a good impression; after wasting time with them on the phone multiple times and taking time off to interview in person with them I don't think it is too much to ask for a form email letter to let you know you weren't selected (if their competitors can do it, I think Apple can as well). I doubt I will bother to interview with them again.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Jan 28, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 (took 1 week)
Difficult interview process. Must know mid to advanced analog hardware. Fundamentals are key. Will be asked to draw circuits, explain operation, and solve simple analog hardware questions. Expect multiple people on interview panel.
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Easy
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 21, 2011
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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 Nov 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 2 days)
I was scheduled for an onsite interview on Oct 30th. After I have booked the hotel and flight, they told me the interviewers were not available for that day and they wanted me to do it the week after. In the next week, I was informed they wanted to change the schedule again. The interview finally happend 3 weeks later but the recruiter won't tell me in which building I will be interviewed until the night before the interview. You know what? No body showed up after 20mins of the scheduled time, and I got a calling saying they want to switch the interview to another building. Fine. I final see the first interviewer. After talking to him, I waited more than 40mins for the 2nd interviewer. No interviewer is on time and they are RUDE... Apple might be a good place for work but please be respectful to the interviewees.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 11, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 2 days)
First phone interview, then a 24 hour assignment, then on-site interview with about 10 different managers. Received and accepted offer about a week after interview.
Interview questions were very technical and consisted of solving problems live on whiteboard.
Don't let a bad interview ruin your recruiting process: I believe I blew a couple of interviews but was pretty good on others. I felt like 5 good interviews versus 3 bad ones and I got the job. Just stay polite and answer the questions as good as you can. Tell the interviewers how you think, I believe that's more important than if you solve all the problems correctly. Think structured and pay attention to detail!
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 1, 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 Sep 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 1 week)
Interview was very professionally organized, Apple HR knows what they are doing. The recruiter was your usual salesperson, trying to convince you to join.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Oct 23, 2011
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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 Feb 2011 (took 1+ week)
Many phone interviews, pretty technical
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Mar 21, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
Gave apple my resume during a career fair at campus career fair. Got an email asking to schedule for an interview bout a week later. The phone interview lasted for bout half an hour, interviewer were nice and generally asked stuff on my resume. i thought it went well, still waiting on the offer he said would come bout 2-3 weeks later
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Mar 15, 2011
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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 (took 1 week)
Got a call from a recruiter and asked me to work on several problems then sent it back after 24 hrs.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Dec 1, 2010 — 4 of 4 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in Cupertino, CA (took 4+ weeks)
The interview process begins with several 30 mins technical phone interviews first (No HR phone screen for my case), the phone interviews are just basic technical background review and simply text-book questions. Hours later, they invited me to do an on-site interview in Cupertino. It is much harder than I expected.
The on-site interview consisted of 15 people 1:1, each of them has 30mins, from 10am-6pm non-stop with a lunch interview in 12. Each interviewer has different backgrounds so their questions could be very hard at some time.
Just in my point of view,
1. Don't wing it. If you don't know just say no. You can imagine like 15 guys ask you question from every sides of technical background, you would probably need 3 phd to answer them all correctly. So just be honest and they will really appreciate that. I missed a lot of questions, and some of them I have totally no idea of, all I did is tell them I don't know and show the potential to learn.
2. Pay attention to detail. That's very important. Be well prepared for your presentation and materials if they interested. Try your best to show them how much you focused on details. Get yourself some extra copies of those printed materials and bind them neatly.
3. It is all about communications. The communication in an on-site interview is even important than technical part. They want to know who you really are and whether you are good to deal with in the future if they really want you. So when you past the 1st round interview already, be smart and ALWAYS show your good altitude. Keep smile at all time.
I got the unofficial offer hours later. The interview process overall is positive and all the interviewers are very nice. They shown their enthusiasm about their job during the interview.
Hope this helps and good luck.
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Negotiation Details
I have no other offers on hand, so accepted this offer with no conditions.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Apr 28, 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 Apr 2010 (took a day)
just ask me whether i can have a co-op for 6 month.
and all the questions are about technical questions
those questions are various, but basic
in the 3rd stage interview, they required a video interview by webcam.
there are five guys asking questions. all are technical questions again.
in the end, they did not response any results, but i think it was failed.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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