I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Feb 2009
Interview
Teams of two to three people at a time interviewed me in waves. Technical questions were asked. No brain teaser types of questions. Opinions were asked of various technologies. No one was very prepared for the interview. It seemed like most were bugged to have to do it and just wanted it to be over. Having to work on short deadlines and long hours was a recurring theme.
Around 2 months after I submitted my resume for Apple software engineer position, I got a call from the hiring manager. He asked me what was the good day for the interview. It took half day for meeting 5 people. It was long hour interview for me. Each interviewer spent ~ 30 minutes and asked ~ 4 questions. Each interviewer asked questions in the different areas.
6 rounds. 1 Technical Screening. Then onsite loop consisted of 4 rounds of behavioral, 2 technicals, and 1 sys design. Had an additional Hiring Manager round since I was borderline.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LC Mediums and mentorship based behavioral questions.
6 rounds. Started with phone screen with HM about past projects.
Onsite rounds
1: OOD
2. Multi threading
3. Java design pattern and Immutable classes
4. HM
All the rounds were heavily focused on Java