Around 2 months after I submitted my resume for Apple software engineer position, I got a call from the hiring manager. He asked me what was the good day for the interview. It took half day for meeting 5 people. It was long hour interview for me. Each interviewer spent ~ 30 minutes and asked ~ 4 questions. Each interviewer asked questions in the different areas.
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Average interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Apple in Oct 2015
Interview
Spoke on the phone with a recruiter who contacted me. Approximately a week later I spoke with an engineer on the team for the position. This was a technical interview in which I did not do all too well (my fault) but was invited to complete a programming project as a follow up. The individual interviews were not the reason for the negative rating - the reason is that there was NO communication from Apple unless they needed something. Even when I was still under consideration, they would not answer questions or inquiries then magically contact me a couple of weeks later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What data structure would you use to auto-complete a dialer when the phone may have thousands or hundreds of thousands of entries.
6 rounds. 1 Technical Screening. Then onsite loop consisted of 4 rounds of behavioral, 2 technicals, and 1 sys design. Had an additional Hiring Manager round since I was borderline.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LC Mediums and mentorship based behavioral questions.
6 rounds. Started with phone screen with HM about past projects.
Onsite rounds
1: OOD
2. Multi threading
3. Java design pattern and Immutable classes
4. HM
All the rounds were heavily focused on Java