I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Apple (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2021
Interview
- Online interviews. - First interview (20 min) : Friendly talk w/ the recruiter. - Second interview (30 min) : Talk to team engineer. Process logical thinking type of questions. - Third interview (30 min) : Talk to team manager. Process logical thinking and strong technical type of questions. - Final interview (5 hours): A total of 5 interviews w/ managers and senior engineers from other teams. Technical, logical, and experience type of questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a vessel/housing that packs multiples wires. Focus on stress and mechanical failure analysis.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Shanghai, Shanghai) in Apr 2026
Interview
All interviewer are quite friendly, they asked question based on your resume, and elaborate from there, so make sure you know every single details you wrote in your resume, they asked more on behavioral question, and a few technical questions.
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple (Kānpur, Uttar Pradesh) in Nov 2025
Interview
campus recruitment, only 15 students got shortlisted for the case study round, then 4 were selected for interview, we had to write on paper and they evaluated that for the interview shortlisting
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
we were asked on the original walking cam based walking beam and about drawing the FBD, moment and torsion and deflection diagrams plus also questions on what material to select and what calculations to do to ensure the mechanism is robust
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Apple (San Diego, CA) in Aug 2025
Interview
After 12 rounds of interviews, while I was told verbally that I was getting an offer, they suddenly asked for 3 more rounds of interviews and said I was not a good fit without any explanation.