Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Apple in Mar 2019
Interview
I applied for a Siri / iCloud software developer position in Seattle, but I got matched to a recruiter in Cupertino hiring full-stack developers.
Before I was given an interview, the recruiter talked me over the phone. He believed that I could move forward and asked me to expect a technical interview. On the day of interview, instead of being given a technical interview, the manager of the recruiter called me and told me that it was going to be mostly non-technical questions. He spent 20 minutes asking me questions regarding my past experience since my undergraduate, which was 15 years ago. He challenged me on my decision to choose the major for undergraduate. And then asked me why I took the next step for every single change. I understand that they're supposed to learn about my experience, but the questions he asked made me uncomfortable. I don't feel those are the most important things he should learn about me either. He at last asked why I chose his team in Apple. I did not apply for the team, but got matched uncorrected. Neither the location nor the skills are a match. When he realized that my skill set is not a match for what they're looking for, he became very impatiently and told me that he had run out of time and ended the call. Of course, they declined me. The whole process was a mess from starting.
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Q: Why did you choose this major for your undergraduate? Why did you not choose that one?
I was contacted by recruiter. Scheduled one phone screen. After that got invited on site interview. Interview take around 4 hours with 4 different people. Interview was in friendly professional manner.
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General technical question about past work and company related projects.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Apple (Cambridge, East of England, England) in Jan 2019
Interview
I was told to schedule an on-site interview after the initial coding task that they gave me. It took 3 attempts to schedule this day of interviews with the recruiter, spread over 2 weeks. I had to repeatedly free my schedule for the day and then find out I did that for nothing, because yet another one of the engineers that were going to interview me decided that he is busy that day.
But worry not, the day of my interview did finally come. I was there at 11 and left at 18. At lunch I was rushed into a group that went out to get food, and I had to buy my own lunch (am I entitled to hope for at least my lunch being subsidised when other people get flown across the Atlantic and get accommodation for several days when they have their interviews?).
By interviews waaay overran, I left at a staggering 18:30pm, and happily went home, because at least the people who I had the chance to talk to were nice to me and seemed happy with my responses.
Anyway, I had to wait another 39 days to get my result back, which was a rejection. 39 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I only did whiteboard coding in my 5th interview, which was already at 5 in the afternoon. It was a medium difficulty exercise, nothing to worry about if you interviewed for other big companies before. But I was quite disappointed to see that for a Software Developer position, 4 interviews would solely consist of behavioural questions...