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Product Design Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)
Apple essentially announced "first-come, first-serve" interviews on campus. I sent my resume to a friend who graduated a year earlier and currently worked for Apple--it turns out he was also conducting the interviews. The interviews took place through the campus Career Center. Each person was interviewed on a 1:1 basis for about 20-30 minutes.
Advice: Know your Materials Fundamentals. The "Intelligence Test" portion of the interview boiled down to the ability to recall and manipulate equations/facts from Mechanics of Materials. Also, if you're in front of a whiteboard and have no clue how to proceed, just start writing--I got the impression that they didn't care so much about the right answer as how you get there.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Product Design Engineer at Apple
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 6 weeks)
Applied online, contacted a couple of weeks later by recruiter. Had a phone interview with the hiring manager consisting of some basic technical questions and talked about my experience. Then had about a week to complete a design project and presentation. Once that was submitted I was invited to interview in person.
In person interview consisted of about 7 1:1 or 2:1 interviews. In each case we talked about 1/3 of the time on past projects I had worked on, and spent a bit of the time with technical questions and then each interviewer would present a component and ask how it was made. Definitely be able to justify and explain each material and design decisions on past projects that you talk about. Also should be very familiar with casting and other metal manufacturing processes. The day also included lunch with several members of their team conducting an informal group interview.
My interview ended after this stage but if it had continued there would have been additional day to present the design project to a group of their engineers.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Product Design Engineer at Apple
Posted Sep 5, 2011 — 1 of 1 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 Jun 2011 (took 3 weeks)
I was contacted by an Apple recruiter to set up a phone interview with the hiring manager. I had a phone interview with the hiring manager in two days. The initial phone interview was about half an hour, and was technical. I was a asked a few questions about my background, and then several technical questions typical of this type of job. As the end of the interview I was given a take home design test to complete in one week. The test was designing a component and documenting my design steps. They liked the result, and the recruiter called me in a few days to set up an onsite interview. The onsite interview consisted of about ten one-on-one or one-on-two interviews. I learned about the interview outcome shortly afterward.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Product Design Engineer at Apple
Posted Jul 19, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 2 days)
Started with two phone interviews about 30-40min, mostly technical in nature with a lot of logic based questions. Followed up with a request to complete a design project (mechanical design of mechanism with 2 solutions with analysis) and a powerpoint presentation and a in-person interview in Cupertino. Day one of in-person interview consisted of about six 1:1 or 2:1 interviews. Day 2 consisted of presenting design project in front of previous day interviewers. Very well organized travel arrangements and communication.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Product Design Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 14, 2010 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 (took a day)
The interviewer explained what he did in the organization. Gave some time for me to ask question. Asked me to explain the resume. Highly technical.
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