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Resume Deep Dive, Then a Plant-Poisoning Grid Problem

AppleSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

I think the team was TV. It was supposed to be a hiring manager round with one interviewer, but a different interviewer joined instead. He said we would be writing code, but then he suddenly started a deep dive into my resume and we talked for 20 minutes. Then he moved on to the problem, which was either whatever "Jiujiusi" is or plant poisoning. 0 is healthy and 1 is poisoned. If a healthy cell…

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