I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Dec 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me, Recruiter screening were basic behavioural questions like what are you studying ,tell me one project etc.The technical round just had tell me yourself and jumped right into the code. It wasnt a leetcode code but rather a media streaming code(the team that was interviewing was AMT) They asked me to give them mathematical formulas, then told me how do you think we can optimize it,I was confused but tried my best.Interview told me he will get back to me in email and then ended the interview
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.
The interview was easy, we talked about technical stuff in-depth: os, drivers. If they think you know something, they would ask you till they find where your knowledge ends. So be ready
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why driver makes all pages that commands in command buffer will work with present in memory before submission?
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.