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 through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Oct 2017
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On Campus Interview, phone screens from various teams, onsite interview with each team each consisting of 4 technical interviews and a lunch interview. Interviews were specialized to the team rather than general questions.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Apple
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I was completely disappointed with the interview process. I have 4 years of work experience in backend software systems and Big data.
I have interviewed with 4 different teams though I did well in all 4 different team phone interviews, they didn't call me for on site.
1. Some video processing team: one round with recruiter and one round with Hiring manager. He asked very simple questions I have answered all. Even he was happy with the answers. 3 days later I got reject.
2. Apple Mac os: This is the worst ever interview process in my life. 1 recruiter, 1 hiring manager round. Answered all the questions . Got another coding round. It's a leet code hard question. I did well and the ans is also correct. Got one more coding round. 2 coding questions. Did very well. after 3 days I got a reject. Seriously!!!? They can't reject based on my performance. But if they thought I have less experience, they should have known that before and shouldn't have even conducted 3 phone interviews. What a waste of time.
3. App store. 1 hiring manager round. did well and 1 phone interview lasted around 1 hour 15 min though it got scheduled for 1 hour. Did well. After 2 days got a reject.
4. App maps team. 1 coding round. Did well. Got reject in 3 days.
Seriously. I have wasted so much energy and time going through this stupid interview process. I had offers from startups.
My sincere advice is, If you are ready to waste time on this, then you can go ahead and apply . otherwise please don't. There are so many companies out there.
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I can't share the exact questions.but it s all in Leetcode.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Apple in Oct 2017
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1. Recruiters were not professional. I have heard that the recruiters will disappear if they decide not to move forward. Even you send emails and you would never receive response.
2. A lot of Indians at platform and infrastructure. It would not be surprised if you meet 7 out of 7 Indians onsite. They are not interviewing professionally. They try to fail you even you alreay gave correct answers. It is just because you are not Indian so you would not get an offer from the Indian hiring manager /team. The reason why the Indian team brings you onsite is they try to hide the fact that they are only hiring Indians. LoL.
3. Apple management should do something to stop this if they want to have excellent engineers.