I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Bengaluru) in Aug 2024
Interview
The interview process was easy to medium (On Campus).
Round 1 -> very easy, mostly based on the resume (completey non technical), and 1 very easy coding question.
Round 2 (Final round)-> Techno Managerial. (Medium - Hard). Technical questions + Behavioral questions. Technical questions completely based on your resume and whatever you answered
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1:
1. Why you did the project on your resume? The motivation behind it.
2. Deep Explanation about the novelty in project.
3. Count the duplicate characters in a given String. (Coding)
(Follow up) Explain where the code might not work. (Important)
Round 2:
1. Explain about the project?
(Follow up) Explain RAG approach?
[Follow up]Can it be used on normal structured Database?
[Follow up]Can it be used on cloud storages like google cloud and ios cloud?
4. Can you explain about the recent crowdstrike outage but in layman terms for a non technical person?
5. Tell me about the recent book you read which you mentioned?
[Follow up] Why was the book named as such?
6. Why Apple?
[Follow up] What makes Apple products special?
It was on-campus. There was one coding interview online. Second round: One dsa question was asked. Medium hard. It was a sliding window question. Apart from that projects were also asked. I didn't get questioned about any cs fundamentals but my approach was important. Third was a hr round. Interviewer was very kind.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to introduce myself and I was asked one dsa question
Two interviews one technical phone 1 behavioral with two people next process was one with hiring manager but didn't pass expect owasp and general trivia , Surprisingly no leetcode which was good I think but questions can be very random