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AppleMachine Learning Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

The team is under iCloud and mainly works on time series and operations research optimization. The first round was a resume deep dive with the hiring manager. They asked how to decide which cloud storage tier to use for a user's files, such as AWS S3 versus AWS S3 Glacier, since different tiers have different costs. It was essentially a classification problem: predicting those files' access proba…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.