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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 1+ week)

Interviews were not too challenging may be cos its a QA position. Basic debugging questions which a QA would deal with on a daily basis. Simple C programs and algorithms questions. No special preparation required if you know to write simple C programs like atoi, string manipulation. Do your homework on compensation since they wont negotiate at a later time. Entry level QA positions have some of the perks missing so be ready to quote a higher base salary.

Interview Questions

atoi c program, string reversal, command line parsing, mutex vs semaphore

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Reason for Declining

Thought this was a 1 dimensional role and at the same time got a SW dev role in other company.

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.

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4.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Apr 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 2 months)

3 phone interviews
4 on site interviews
mIx of technology and inter personal skills

Interview Questions

How will you test TCP features?

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)

Interviewers are very thorough, and can range from HR/personal questions to extremely technical questions. Know *EVERYTHING* on your resume, in and out. Be truthful and don't try to give answers that you think would just please the interviewer, rather give answers you think are best. You may be interviewed by one person, or a series of short interviewers by several people from the team you will be working for or working with.

Interview Questions

If A can ping B, but B can not ping A, explain how you would troubleshoot, step by step, in FULL detail of the protocols involved.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2010 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)

Easy going interviewer. Started with behavioral questions then went into technical questions. Nothing difficult although the interviewer did not know how to phrase his question when he was expecting a particular answer.

Interview Questions

how would you test a battery

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Apr 2010 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)

Got contacted through LinkedIn, which lead to a phone interview. Afterwards given various choices for available positions that fit my experience, chose one, but didn't get any further contact.

Questions were about my job experience, passions, ambitions. Relocation was not a problem.

Interview Questions

What big projects have you worked on?

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2010 (took a day)

Telephonic HR Interview: Details about my previous job , Availability for phone screen.
Telephonic Interview: Questions on C++, Perl and Automation approach
HR interview F2F : Questions about why apple and why this position. Reason for leaving your past job.
Relocation dependencies. Strong points that makes you different from others in your team.
Telephonic Interviews: 6 F2F : Different areas stressed form QA, thininking, Test Case Design,
programming concepts , Bit Masking

Interview Questions

Bit Alignment programm, and why we need to use an overhead

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Bit masking and parity Check program

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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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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2010 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)

Did the phone screen with the recruiter, then setup a 30 minutes phone interview with an engineer from the team. Was mostly questions on technical knowledge, but the interview flowed very awkwardly. Was pretty clear that the interviewer did not understand the answers. Plus, I've rarely talked to someone in this field who sounded less excited about what they do for a living.

Interview Questions

Was asked to describe the differences between http and tcp...seriously.

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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 Skills Test.

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Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2009 in Cupertino, CA (took 5 days)

I recently interviewed with Apple for a job doing QA on the iphone.

I did not think the interview went very well over the phone which is probably why I did not get a call back. There were a lot of questions concerning the programming languages that I had experience in, particularly which languages I currently use. The position they were offering did not seem like a good match for me, I did not hear back from the company.