I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Apple (Taipeh) in Sep 2021
Interview
First HR called you without notice, then she needed you to introduce yourself in one minute. After that she wanted you to give a quick description of the abstract of your master thesis.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Apple in May 2021
Interview
I had a terrible experience interviewing at Apple. The Hiring Manager was more than 10 minutes late, and when he did come to the meeting he told me point blank that I didn't need to be here within the Watch PDE team, I should look at other departments, and that I should look elsewhere that wasn't in product design engineering. This was before I had a chance to even open my mouth and introduce myself. He judged from whatever information other than looking at me that I don't belong. He then followed to not believe me when I explained my qualificiations and motivations for engineering such as having a MS, research in robotics, and working on PCBs at another tech company. He made looks at and sexist remarks. Then going into the technical portion, I bombed because the whole time he was trying to make me feel bad. I'm a black woman and I'm curious what other discriminitary and sexist hiring practices Apple employes to keep black engineers out of their offices. I thought about suing, but I heard from my current colleagues about terrible experiences working there too so this kind of personality is normal. If you are not apart of the majority ( this man wasn't a white man btw) be really careful and double check who you are interviewing with. So I think I dodged a bullet, no wonder the position was open under that manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Review the questions that have been previously stated here. All MechE fundamentals are fair game.
Quick phone screening with recruiter. Then quick technical interview with hiring manager. Last round was a series of pretty tough technical interviews followed by design challenge. Design challenge was difficult, presented in front of like 12 engineers that asked pretty hard follow up questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
GD&T
Manufacturing
Heat Transfer
Stress & Strain stuff