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Apple Interview Experiences
3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- Two Technical Rounds, Rejected Despite Glowing FeedbackApple · Analytics Engineer · Technical Screen · Dec 2025Rejected
Apple Maps - Metrics Engineering team I'd honestly never heard of this role before. I looked up a lot of information about it, and it feels kind of like a Data Engineer role with an Analytics focus — designing data pipelines for various Apple Maps features, and designing metrics to measure the app's performance. A recruiter reached out to me, and I went into the interview with a "why not, let's s…
- Aced Every Round, Rejected at Hiring CommitteeApple · Software Engineer · New Grad · Onsite · Nov 2025Rejected
The behavioral questions were all situational ones — things like what you'd do if a coworker disappeared and stopped doing their work. But it was all pretty relaxed. The interviewer even said he'd already gathered everything he needed. It felt good overall. Coding round 1 was an intervals problem — similar to one I'd seen in a previous report, where you're given a bunch of [start, end] intervals…
- Rejected After Two Technical Rounds, But the Nicest Interview YetApple · Data Engineer · Technical Screen · Nov 2025Rejected
Apple Maps – Metrics Engineering team I'd never heard of this role before either. I looked into it a lot, and it feels kind of like a Data Engineer (Analytics-leaning) role — designing data pipelines for various Apple Maps features and building metrics to measure the app's performance. A recruiter reached out to me, and I went into the interview just to give it a try. I ended up failing, but this…
- Three-Day Onsite Full of Behavioral Questions, Then GhostedApple · Software Engineer · Onsite · Nov 2025No response
I got contacted by HR on LinkedIn — the team is based in Austin. The phone screen was with the hiring manager. Two questions, neither of which needed to actually run — you just had to talk through your approach. Not straight off LeetCode, but roughly LeetCode easy level. I interviewed after only a few days of grinding problems, and I still passed, so don't stress about it too much. The onsite was…
- a Quick HR Call Just to Schedule the MinicaseApple · Data Scientist · HR Screen · Oct 2025
Simply put, it was very simple — basically no difficulty at all. We scheduled about an hour, but they actually only asked me three questions: What's your current status? What's your highest degree? When can you schedule the minicase? As long as you answer honestly there's no problem. In the middle, I also asked two questions. My highest degree is a master's, but I couldn't find my undergrad schoo…
- Passed Five Rounds but Lost to an Internal Hire, Plus Coupang, Databricks, and Mistral AI Along the WayApple · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Sep 2025Rejected
Background: 5.5 years of experience, all of it at second-tier companies doing infra. Goal: mainly looking to move into AI-related work. Target level is Google L5 equivalent or above. I'm not afraid of a heavy workload, I like healthy competition. Timeline: started grinding problems and sending out resumes from early February, and by early June had gradually started getting offers and wrapped up i…
- Poker System Design, OOD Rock-Paper-Scissors, and Two Hiring Manager RoundsApple · Software Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2025
Coding 1 Design a poker card system, implementing two core methods: shuffle and order. The order method needs to return a sorted list of cards by suit and rank — for example starting with 3 of Clubs, 3 of Diamonds, 3 of Hearts, 3 of Spades, and so on up through Ace. Coding 2 First a relatively simple LeetCode DFS (depth-first search) question, followed by an OOD (object-oriented design) segment w…
- Two Phone Screens, Failed on the Socket Message RoundApple · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2025Rejected
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…
- Hardcore Technical From C/C++ to SV/UVM, Almost No Behavioral QuestionsApple · ASIC Design Verification Engineer · Onsite · Jan 2025Offer
Hi everyone! The job search grind is finally over, and I landed the offer I wanted. Along the way I read countless useful posts from people who came before me on this forum, and I learned a lot from them. Today I want to give back and summarize the interview experience and high-frequency topics that I and the friends around me ran into applying for ASIC Design Verification (DV) roles in North Ame…
