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Updated Jan 28, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Operations at Apple
Posted Jan 28, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)
I'm a bschool student . i applied through school's career website and received the invite one month later. The interview was about 30 minutes. Mostly behaviors and he asked some detailed questions regarding my experience in my former employer . Since I applied for operations, he also asked about some simple questions regarding improving factory's capacity.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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IOS Automation/Location Engineer at Apple
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 in Cupertino, CA (took 4 days)
INTERVIEW PROCESS:
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Usual way is 3 phone screens and one onsite interview with many people
I was initially called through a technical recruiter for a pre-screening to next level of interview and has been screened to next call and the following questions were asked in the next rounds!!
Few questions in the first round of interview and then to the second round of interview was scheduled.
An interview just said hi and has been just jumped into the too technical questions like a rapid fire round :
I am ok with C, C++, Objective C and asked about Memory Allocation in C , C++
Remove duplicates in a list with the best time complexity
Keyword "@property, synthesize and diff between atomic and non atomic"
Virtual functions and Overloading, Overriding functions
Design Patterns
Diff between hash and array in Perl
It was a 30 min interview process!!
All was kool, but should its more kind of timely questions which you have to answer.
And finally said will get back to you after discussion with the senior management level !!
Just said we will get back to you and no response..which i assumed to be declined!!
Experience was decent one, but remember you have to be attentive to answer the questions in depth !!
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Internship at Apple
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 2+ weeks)
All the employees were great and made me feel welcome. I really enjoyed the experience.
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Apple
Posted Jan 25, 2012 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 Jan 2012 in Cupertino, CA (took 4+ weeks)
I did an initial phone interview where we discussed general technology, I presume this was to make certain they weren't wasting their time. They then followed up with on-site interviews for which I was flown out and put up in a very nice hotel. The interviews lasted from 9am-3pm in 45 minute increments, each with a different person. Each person was different, some wanted me to do specific programming problems others just wanted to talk about my experience. Overall the stress level wasn't too high, and I wasn't asked to do anything overly complex.
Interview Questions
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Negotiation Details
I was blown away by the offer, and did not negotiate. I often wonder if I could of gotten more, but I am happy with my initial offer.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Sourcing Manager at Apple
Posted Jan 17, 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 Jan 2010 in Cupertino, CA (took 2 weeks)
Talent Acquisition was knowledgable and did a good job summing up the role. After two conversations, I advanced to a phone interview with the hiring manager. The hiring manager seemed great - it was more of a conversation than an interview. None of the questions were too out-of-the-box, but it seemed like a great fit. I was scheduled for one more set of interviews - the peer panel, which occurred a week later. The peer reviews were very poorly run - the two peer panel interviewers seemed to be completely unprepared about my background and were disorganized. My questions were specific and caught them off-guard. I suspect this was potentially due to the secretive culture at Apple. They made no attempt to really understand what my background was. After this conversation, the HR manager sent me a note telling me that they were very interested in having me come for in-person interviews, and would let me know within a week, but that communication never happened, despite my repeated attempts to reach out. I ultimately gave up 1-2 months later.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Field Test Engineer at Apple
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 7 weeks)
Apple has a very intense and in depth interview process. I started out with a personal one on one with a team lead at an invite only Apple hiring event. After they decided they liked me I proceeded to have about 3 or 4 more phone interviews that were arranged by my HR case worker. All employees and the HR rep were very respectful, professional and obviously some of the best in their fields.
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Reason for Declining
I had just purchased a home in my city and it turned out to just not be the right time. After I pay down my home a bit, I hope to be able to re-interview with Apple and accept their offer.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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IPhone/IPod Product Design Engineer at Apple
Posted Dec 26, 2011 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 3 weeks)
This was a pretty intense interview process. It began with a 1 on 1 lunch interview that lasted about an hour. Next was a design test, I had a week to design a mechanism which they specified. They wanted to see a report with pictures of my CAD, my thought process, some quick calculations, possibly more in depth FEA, a BOM, etc. The day after I turned in this report, I received an invite to come in for a full day of interviewing.
This full day consisted of several interviews. Every half hour was a new interview, and each interview felt rushed--you've gotta be on your toes. Almost every interviewer brought a piece from an Apple product and asked me what material it was and how it was made. Be prepared to rattle off 3 or 4 different techniques to decipher between steel and aluminum. There was also a lunch interview which started off casual, talking about our hobbies, etc. But then I was asked how my water bottle was manufactured and what material it was, and then more and more engineering questions were fired off again.
Overall, things you definitely need to know:
- stress/strain diagrams and all of their important points
- different engineering metals (stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, magnesium, etc.) and where they sit respective to one another in their specs (Modulus of elasticity, density, tensile strength, magnetic or nonmagnetic)
- dfferent engineering platics (PC, ABS, Delrin, etc) and their primary uses.
- overall different manufacturing processes and their corresponding constraints.
- know basic deflection equations and be able to work through a deflection problem.
Many of these reviews tell you to be sure not to stress out. The Apple engineers definitely do try to break you and stress you out. However, I think my biggest mistake was overcompensating for this. I didn't stress out at all, but as a result, I also didn't push myself to think critcally enough, and I think that is where they saw my fault. If I had made it past this round, they would have brought me back in to present my design project. In the end, if anything, this was a great interview experience.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Posted Dec 16, 2011
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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 Dec 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)
I was contacted by the staffing agents. The hire manager did about 45 minutes phone screen. Then a guy called me, without scheduling and we talked about 1 hour. A few day later, I was invited to onsite interview. It lasted from 10:00 -5:00.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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IPhone Mechanical Design at Apple
Posted Dec 13, 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 May 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)
Very short. One technical question and done after the response. You need to impress them with knowledge but they are very cocky and do not let you ask any questions. Had people lined up and some interviews lasted less than 2 minutes depending ion the interviewer.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Project Manager at Apple
Posted Dec 11, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Recruiter from the company contacted me via Linked In. She set up a phone interview and asked me about my experience and interests. It was a 30 minute discussion. She did a good job of describing the job and who I would be working with. A week later, another phone interview by another recruiter that asked me more direct, technical questions and described the competitive environment and reviewed the benefits and relo package to see if I was interested. 2 weeks later I went to Cupertino site and met with the group & manager I would work with. Very competitive environement and they are going like gangbusters. They all emphasized that right now, work is thier life but they all LOVE it.
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Reason for Declining
Didn't want to live in Cupertino or that area and didnt want to travel as much as the job would require (50%)
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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