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Technical Screen

A 45-Minute Technical Screen on Synchronizers and PPA

AppleTechnical Screen · Dec 2025

45 minutes total. It started with introducing the work on my resume — I talked about an IP block I designed myself. While I was talking he kept nodding, and I thought the first round was going pretty smoothly. Then he started asking some technical questions. Since I mentioned different synchronizers partway through, he asked why you'd use different synchronizers (2-stage FF, edge detect, async FI…

Shared by a candidate · reported Dec 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.