I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Apple in Jan 2014
Interview
I went to Apple's event on campus and a recruiter contacted me the next day, telling me I got an interview. It was very casual and mostly behavioral questions, demo my past projects and talking about my experiences. Keep in mind I am a college freshman, so this is not the usual case.
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In the end, the recruiter (who turns to the project manager) informed me of my lack of experience, but would love to keep an eye out on me (she meant it sincerely) so I'll definitely apply next year with more material under my belt.
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
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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.
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LC Mediums and mentorship based behavioral questions.