I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in May 2020
Interview
Apple sourcer contact me through LinkedIn, make an appointment to have a phone screen, but the sourcer didn't dial to me at the time, and no text message back to me, just disappeared.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Nov 2017
Interview
Straight forward, general character type questions and discussion of past experiences conducted via a phone interview. Next, 1:1 review of skills via problem solving and code sharing. Also a panel review conducted on-site.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Apple (Parigi) in May 2016
Interview
One call to discuss about my background with some global technical questions.
Then one weekend project with a set topic (cannot disclose it) to display my reverse engineering and algorithm skills (rebuild a system behavior with some data)
Then a phone interview with technical questions then algorithm questions to do on a shared google doc.