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% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Apple
Interview
Applied through a reference. Was contacted two to four weeks later. They set up a first interview with recruiter and hiring manager. Then an interview with an engineer mainly going over my resume and simple Java questions.
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Questions I got asked were what does the final keyword do in Java and how I would go through a list of country music words and track the frequency of common words.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Apple
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One of the worst interview experiences I have ever had.
The setup and actual interviews was fine. The recruiter was quick to turnaround and give me the positive news and asked for a bunch of details to put together the offer.
Then I waited for weeks, and every week there would be some excuse about the delay. Finally I had made up my mind that I would decline because this is poor ethic, but I did not want to give them the satisfaction of just losing me and not having to explain themselves so I kept at contacting the recruiter asking for status updates. Finally got one last excuse with a decline.
I am glad I did not mention to anyone that I had a successful interview because it would have been really embarrassing to explain this. I guess the recruiter/team/Apple does not care about future employees/customers.
Submitted resume through campus career fair, and received a phone interview about two weeks after. HR setup the phone interview. Interestingly, I was interviewed with the head of the group directly, while the group currently only has 3 people. There wasn't any technical questions, and one behavioral question was about the most challenging class I'm taking right now.
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I wasn't ask any technical question. One behavior question that I remember was about the most challenging class I'm taking right now