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Phone Screen Rejection After a Bug-Free LRU

AppleSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

AES team. The role was posted by someone on the forum (I don't know whether they were the hiring manager), but I applied on my own, and the recruiter reached out very quickly. The phone screen was with one interviewer. For the first thirty minutes it was behavioral questions plus a project deep dive, and I got affirmed on all sorts of things. After that came LRU, bug free, and it ran with the rig…

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