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Updated May 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Apple
Posted Dec 11, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 3 days)
HR/Manager interview went well, in person. Had phone technical interview where guy was asking obscure database terminology about implementations done 5 years ago.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Diagnostic Firmware Engineer at Apple
Posted Dec 1, 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 Sep 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 2 weeks)
I was contacted through recruiter after applying online. Phone interview started on time. There were lot of questions regarding my recent work experience . The position was in Diagnostic group for Iphone Ipod division . The work was quite related to what I was doing. There were questions regarding flashing utilities and how to debug any issue. There were no other questions in general apart from questions related to my experience and I had a positive feedback at the end after the coding excercise given to me through screen sharing but still got a rejection
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 21, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 2 days)
I was scheduled for an onsite interview on Oct 30th. After I have booked the hotel and flight, they told me the interviewers were not available for that day and they wanted me to do it the week after. In the next week, I was informed they wanted to change the schedule again. The interview finally happend 3 weeks later but the recruiter won't tell me in which building I will be interviewed until the night before the interview. You know what? No body showed up after 20mins of the scheduled time, and I got a calling saying they want to switch the interview to another building. Fine. I final see the first interviewer. After talking to him, I waited more than 40mins for the 2nd interviewer. No interviewer is on time and they are RUDE... Apple might be a good place for work but please be respectful to the interviewees.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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App Store Editorial at Apple
Posted Nov 19, 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 Jul 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 6 months)
Was initially contacted by recruiter online. This lead to a phone call with hiring manager. That lead to onsite interview with team. All the people at Apple were smart and pleasant, some were very nice. Way too much time between stages though, and poor communication about status and next steps.
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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 Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 19, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 1 week)
I got an interview with an HR specialist through an employee referral. The interview was more like a screening and mostly focused on how my background and skills matched their current open positions in that particular department. There were a few technical questions, but very high level, and the rest was just a discussion on the job responsibilities and how my background could be a fit or not.
The whole process was very well organized and the recruiter I spoke to was very friendly. Overall it was a very good and professional experience, even though it seemed that there was not a good fit at the time for either party involved.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 11, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 2 days)
First phone interview, then a 24 hour assignment, then on-site interview with about 10 different managers. Received and accepted offer about a week after interview.
Interview questions were very technical and consisted of solving problems live on whiteboard.
Don't let a bad interview ruin your recruiting process: I believe I blew a couple of interviews but was pretty good on others. I felt like 5 good interviews versus 3 bad ones and I got the job. Just stay polite and answer the questions as good as you can. Tell the interviewers how you think, I believe that's more important than if you solve all the problems correctly. Think structured and pay attention to detail!
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 7, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 1 week)
Phone interviews were standard fare: programming puzzles, algorithms, etc -- nothing out of the ordinary. The onsite interview was a much different story. Everyone was fairly rude and condescending. The general sentiment was: "Apple embodies greatness. You should be very happy that we've deigned to grant you a small part of our time."
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UI Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 2, 2011 — 2 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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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)
Everything was perfect until the end of the process. It started with a unexpected phone call from a hiring manager a week after I applied online for a UI engineer position. I was shocked when I got this call.
Phone Call #1: recruiter. Nice person a little bit straight forward: "you're currently a UI Engineer in your company that is great. You seems to be the right candidate. Any other application besides Apple? How much do you make? Any stocks? bonus?". The recruiter shared some info about the next interviewer via email (team manager) and mentioned that it will be a technical screen. So be prepared.
Phone Call #2: technical phone screen with the team manager. I was technically prepared but the questions were about my motivation not about technical stuff. "Why me and not someone else? why apple? tell me about your best experience? worst experience? biggest issue? How did you fix it?" etc. I had a lack of memory trying to dig up all my previous experiences live on the phone. At the end of this call I was disappointed.
On site: good news! a week after I received an email from the same recruiter. "The team manager wants you to come meet the team onsite at Cupertino.". Proudest moment!
- Team manager: Picked me up at the front desk we went in his personal office upstairs to engage the conversation. He discribed the position in details and the organization. Not sharing a lot of internal stuff but we ended up drawing the architecture of their system (high level) on a board. He was deep into it. I was watching him drawing the architecture but he was focusing on a little area (the candidate's area which was a UI component shared with multiple systems). I was looking at the global picture I wasn't really paying attention to the UI stuff. I noticed something was missing so I said "why do you guys don't use a specific component which could coordinate the entire stuff and make it easier?". He said what do you mean? "I mean this kind of component" (confidential stuff I can't share). He smiled and said "this is exactly were we want to go". This wasn't even UI stuff. He maybe realized that I was able to understand the global picture and improve it. He went back on this UI position in order to triple check my skills. He was confident after my intervention so this was really not picky. "How do you test a UI? what framework do you use?". He launched the current product on his monitor. He wanted to have my feedback about the UI. "Is this complex for you?" This was such an amazing UI for such a "simple" product. Anyway good interview and good feeling.
- project manager #1: Extremely skilled. We had a lunch together and the interview took place at the cafeteria downstairs. The food was amazing but let's be honest you can't eat anything. He keeps asking you questions. He took a small plate of salad go figure. He was asking me some tricky stuff about behind the scene, DOM, browser's memory management, JSON optimization. He was skilled and tried to dig as deepest as possible. Almost writing code on his machine. I wasn't really happy about my performance at that time but I came up with some high level answers. Friendly guy he left me in a meeting room in order to meet with another PM.
- project manager #2: He seemed exhausted. He came at 6am this morning and he said will be leaving at 6pm. Basic day at Apple! He started with random questions about my experiences. He then asked me to design a UI from scratch based on a quick specification. We had only 5 minutes. That was fast I didn't have time to elaborate and I forgot to talk about which user we were targeting. At Apple this is a mistake I guess. Good guy another came after that.
- lead UI engineer: friendly, always smiling. Same thing he started with random stuff. We laughed a lot. He asked me what was the trickiest UI I've ever written. Then I realized that a simple UI at Apple equals the trickiest UI you've ever built. He asked me some high level question about javascript "how would you write a darg&drop javascript function?" Then jumped into "how would you write a copy/past from one application to another application? both running on the same OS." He said like on windows for example how would you write that? I was like... really? again I wasn't %100 happy but I was pretty confident about the all interview. They try to push you as hard as they can but you always feel like you know what they're talking about. We ended the interview and we walked through the front door together talking about life (how was the traffic today etc..).. for about 20s then he left and said: stay tuned..
Since that day I never had any answer (= a couple of months ago). I sent an email to the team manager directly. Recruiter, etc.. They never replied. This is by far the best interviews I had so far and I still which I could work at Apple.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Hardware Engineer at Apple
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took 1 week)
Interview was very professionally organized, Apple HR knows what they are doing. The recruiter was your usual salesperson, trying to convince you to join.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Network Engineer at Apple
Posted Oct 28, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Cupertino, CA (took a day)
Was very very technical, they made me draw on the board most of the times. Layer2 and 3 mostly focusing on, OSPF, BGP, STP, FW, ACLs, Nexus OS, FWSM etc. I did not expect this to be this technical but overall I got a feel of how intense these interviews can be. So prepare like its the last one, I am sure I am going to do it next time.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Phone Interview.
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