Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Apple as a Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 100%
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Standard leetcode question. Pretty smooth and interviewer was chill. Then there were some infra ones and that was also quite chill. Felt very relaxed and wasn’t intense like some other places I’ve interviewed at.
The interviewers were very patient. They asked some technical questions from DSA and SQL. In the manager’s round they asked puzzles and general management questions. Also they asked real world examples of graph algorithms like DFS and BFS.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Categorise words together if they are circular shifted words for each other.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Jan 2023
Interview
The interview process started with Recruiter phone call followed by onsite interview, the interview was normal and move along it was little bit complicated and I was not able to answer the questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given N items where each item has some weight and profit associated with it and also given a bag with capacity W, [i.e., the bag can hold at most W weight in it]. The task is to put the items into the bag such that the sum of profits associated with them is the maximum possible.