The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple (Irvine, CA) in Jul 2011
Interview
I applied online and was invited to an interview seminar, which was pretty cool. Apple does, indeed, do a great job in making it's potential employees excited to work for the company. They did a lot of talking and a lot of prepping. They ask a lot of questions to get you involved and hope that you'll speak up. But I think that what is most important is to be friendly, but not too eager and for your schedule, make yourself as available as possible. Because I only put down that I could work 15-2o hours due to school, I wasn't considered as much as other people were. When I talked to the manager after the seminar he said he really liked me but he saw I only put down 20 hours when it's mostly liked that the applicant puts down at least 30 hours of availability even though they might not work that much.
Famously competitive as always, my odds were better since I kept updating my resume whenever I was on the job search. They reached out to me first by email, I completed an application, and then had three rounds of interviews in total.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you had to work with someone hesitant to learn.
Started with group interview and asked us all questions, only asked three questions and also showed us a little about genmojis and allowed us to create our own. if successful was a one to one interview with store manager again only asked three questions.
3 interviews that were all online and then an in person orientation where we learned more about the company and the values. After this point I became a temp 6 month contract