Apple Software Engineer Intern interview questions
Updated Apr 14, 2026
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Software Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Intern roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Apple overall takes an average of 47 days.
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long and you get a chance to interview many teams individually. The managers are very friendly, they have a high bar for competence. You need to be passionate about what you're doing and to demonstrate well.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple
Interview
After I applied, the recruiter emailed me with a few groups within Apple that were interested in me and set up 30 minute phone interviews with a person in the group. If the interview went well, I had a second hour long phone interview with two or three other people in the group.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were a good mix of technical questions and general experience questions. The technical questions were partly simple questions about Objective C memory management and stuff as well as some data structures and algorithms questions.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Dec 2013
Interview
Online referral by my friend in November. Got an email from the HR asking for suitable dates. So gave one in December first week. Received a call from the Hiring Manager wherein he briefed me about the position and asked about a specific project which was relevant to the position. It went okay and for 30 minutes. At the end of it, he informed me about another interview with an engineer. After that kept waiting and finally I got an email after 1 week from the HR notifying me of the second interview on Dec.17th. The second phone interview went pretty well as he was extremely cheerful. In that he asked me to describe about some specific details of the different projects I worked on as a part of the course work. Asked me about some basic data structures just to check whether I am aware of them. 2 days after that got the phone call from the HR informing me about the offer which was really unbelievable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
None. Just concentrate on the basics of data structures and projects.