Apple Product Design Engineer, interview questions

Applied online, contacted a couple of weeks later by recruiter. Had a phone interview with the hiring manager consisting of some basic technical questions and talked about my experience. Then had about a week to complete a design project and presentation. Once that was submitted I was invited to interview in person. In person interview consisted of about 7 1:1 or 2:1 interviews. In each case we talked about 1/3 of the time on past projects I had worked on, and spent a bit of the time with technical questions and then each interviewer would present a component and ask how it was made. Definitely be able to justify and explain each material and design decisions on past projects that you talk about. Also should be very familiar with casting and other metal manufacturing processes. The day also included lunch with several members of their team conducting an informal group interview. My interview ended after this stage but if it had continued there would have been additional day to present the design project to a group of their engineers.

I was contacted by an Apple recruiter to set up a phone interview with the hiring manager. I had a phone interview with the hiring manager in two days. The initial phone interview was about half an hour, and was technical. I was a asked a few questions about my background, and then several technical questions typical of this type of job. As the end of the interview I was given a take home design test to complete in one week. The test was designing a component and documenting my design steps. They liked the result, and the recruiter called me in a few days to set up an onsite interview. The onsite interview consisted of about ten one-on-one or one-on-two interviews. I learned about the interview outcome shortly afterward.