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      Post Silicon Validation Interview

      Dec 16, 2014
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer

      Application

      I interviewed at Apple

      Interview

      many interviews and lots of headache. they tend to ask question that are sometimes irrelelvant to the interview proccess. i was disappointed and trying to note that it is out of my experience, did not helped.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      in C, for the compiler - what is th "{" sign?
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      Post Silicon Validation Interview

      Jun 7, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2018

      Interview

      I applied online. I had 2 phone screening and then after 2 weeks, I was called onsite. I had 7 interviews back to back. The interviewers were very polite. 3 days after the onsite, I got a rejection.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Questions on TLB, Caches, Virtual Memory ,OOO pipelines. Advantages of inclusive and NINE caches. Difference between const int *ptr and int * const ptr. Bit manipulation questions - set nth bit, replace a 16th to 13th bits by some other number. Find if the given number is a power of 2. Different types of locks. How is atomicity implemented? (LLSC). Cache Coherence. Why is dirty sharing done? Questions on BIOS.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Write assembly language code to thrash a set in a cache.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Difference between int *a[10] and int (*a)[10]
      1 Answer
      6

      Post Silicon Validation Interview

      May 2, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2018

      Interview

      Two rounds of phone interviews, first one was a general overview with some technical questions, second was a coderpad quiz on python. Answered all the questions right but never heard back so I guess that's that. They took forever to respond at every stage. A little annoying really

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Basic sorting, dictionaries, classes in python
      Answer question

      Question 2

      How much memory is allocated for a class he defines for you over the phone
      Answer question

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