I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple in Apr 2011
Interview
Submitted resume online and got an email from recruiter for an on campus interview. Its about 45 mins long. Asked about your background and projects. Couple technical question regarding computer architecture and digital circuit. The guy was really cool and laid back. He asked if I had experience with verification tools/software and why I want to work for Apple.
He was really passionate about his job and was very knowledgeable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about cache coherent, FSM, design trade offs, and verilog.
Introduced myself and research in the beginning and got asked bunch of technical questions with simple coding problem at the end. The manager explained about the team before the interview ended
Screening, followed by onsite. At least 4-5 hours of interview sessions. Diagramming on white board. Questions on digital design and signal integrity. Tough. Detailed. Also questions on experience and culture fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Where should you place the capacitor on a power pin?
It was 3 stage process with technical, hr, culture fit round and they asked medium problems with covering basics of the circuits design, digital electronics. And they also gone through cv and asked situation questions