I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple in Feb 2015
Interview
Apple was at my school collecting resumes and recruiting for internship interviews, so I submitted my resume, gave my pitch, and was asked to interview later that day. I was interviewed by a current product design engineer, and we briefly went over my resume. I had a chance to ask him questions about the company as well. It was ~30 minutes long.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They showed a spec sheet (manufacturing/tolerance sheet) and asked me a few questions about tolerancing.
The interview went well overall. The interviewer opened with a discussion about a project I'm proud of, then a beam scenario question that covered structural and load analysis, stress and deflection, and material selection — testing my ability to connect first-principles thinking across the full problem space.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Apr 2026
Interview
Interview with hiring manager then virtual onsite. They ask you general mechanical engineering questions as well as questions dependent on type of team and skills they are looking for. Not bad overall just brush up on basic beam deflection, GD&T, Design analysis etc.
They gave me a take home tolerance analysis worksheet. It was essentially a tolerance stack up for one of their products and felt fairly straight forward. Thought I answered it well but ultimately they decided to move forward with other candidates.