Software Engineer 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 a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple
Interview
This was a phone interview. The interviewer called me on time, and we started our discussion.
The interviewer was very professional. We chatted on what I did in my current company, and then spend the rest of the hour on the following question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of strings, provide the number of strings that are unique within the list.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Phone screen, then 3 hours of onsite interviews. Asynchronous programming and logic questions. System design. Questions were difficult but interesting. Typical from any major software company, eg similar to Amazon. Didn't ask behavioral questions, just technical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The standard questions on graphs and graph traversal.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Apple (Parigi) in Sep 2013
Interview
The interview process is full day of interview with members of the software engineering team, and selected members from other departments.
3 technical interview, ranging from 1:1 to 1:5. Each interview consisted of technical question on the iOS and OS X development environment, then a coding question to solve on a whiteboard.