I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in May 2014
Interview
Couple of rounds of interviews with hiring manager, team, and HR. I met Apple at a Campus recruiting event and spoke to university recruiters + engineers. The on-campus team set up a interview screen after reviewing my CV with an awesome developer there. Then I was added to the internal DB for pre-screened candidates where my hiring manager then kicked off the process: phone call with the specific recruiter, hiring manager, 4 teammate panel, and final chat again with hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please tell us a time you had a personal challenge - describe who was involved and how you overcame it.
HR Screening, Interview with Manager, and a series of panel interviews. Lengthy interview process but pretty standard to most interviews today. Got to meet a great team and had conversational interviews
Call with manager, SQL and coding questions. the SQL questions seemed to be asked off the top of the manager’s head so the best preparation is to be well versed in simple SQL.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Jun 2025
Interview
Since I had interviewed for another QA role a couple of months back, I was directly screened for the "Hiring Manager round" this time.
It was a quick 30-min QA technical interview with a couple of behavioral questions.
I got enough time to ask HM a few questions at the end.
It has been good so far..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. How did you use your "positive influence" to impact a project?
2. How do you define priority and severity?
3. What constitutes a good bug report?