RejectedOnsite

Three Phone Rounds, Three Virtual Onsite Rounds, Rejected

AppleSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2026

This was my first time interviewing for an Apple SDE role, and it was for compute infra. Overall the experience was bad: three phone rounds, then three virtual onsite rounds. Apple hires by team, and every team has its own interview style. My team did phone interviews one round at a time, and you only got the next round if you passed the previous one. Round 1: OS and networking fundamentals plus…

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