Hardware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Hardware Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 130 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Apple overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Apple as a Hardware Engineer according to 130 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 15%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 7%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
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The first interview was purely technical, and lasted more than an hour. The whole process was fast - got an email from the recruiter a month after I applied. They also reached out to me on LinkedIn.
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What are the different components of the stress-strain curve?
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.
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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