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Two Phone Screens, Failed on the Socket Message Round

AppleSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2025

Two rounds of phone interviews, done on two separate days. The first half of Apple's phone screens is always a behavioral question, which I thought was pretty distinctive. The first round was with an older engineer, kind of serious and not big on smiling, but you could tell he was a senior engineer. The question was to design a hit counter that aggregates how many hits happened in the past 5 minu…

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