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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 29, 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Cupertino, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Jun 2015

      Interview

      Pros: Recruiters get in touch almost immediately. You can interview with multiple teams at once ..independently ..uh well, read cons below. Response time is almost always good. Cons - welcome to reality: I had couple of phone interviews with 2 of the teams and one with the third. Both interviews with the first 2 teams went way beyond excellent, with me answering every single question and having a good and engaging discussion with the interviewer. I am baffled at the outcome - rejected by both teams with no feedback. If they say background is not a fit after 2 rounds of interviews, I do not see why they even had to hold the 2 interviews. One team got back after first interview saying they want me to come onsite. After giving my availability and almost after 3 weeks, they get back saying they want another phone interview. I agreed. Almost immediately after the phone interview, I was rejected. It is not hard to connect the dots and see that they had made the decision already. Moreover, they asked for another round of interview after the first 2 team rejects. It is again not hard to see that, well, the process of multiple team interviewing is not independent. One team asked me to code in coderpad.io. The code I wrote was right but the interviewer only used c++ compiler. The same code worked perfect on C compiler. I sent a note after the interview. But guess what, reject anyway.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      OS and Networking questions for the most part.
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 9, 2015
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
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      Around 2 months after I submitted my resume for Apple software engineer position, I got a call from the hiring manager. He asked me what was the good day for the interview. It took half day for meeting 5 people. It was long hour interview for me. Each interviewer spent ~ 30 minutes and asked ~ 4 questions. Each interviewer asked questions in the different areas.
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 3, 2026
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      Neutral experience
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      LC Mediums and mentorship based behavioral questions.
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      Software Engineer Interview

      May 19, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      Declined offer
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      6 rounds. Started with phone screen with HM about past projects. Onsite rounds 1: OOD 2. Multi threading 3. Java design pattern and Immutable classes 4. HM All the rounds were heavily focused on Java