How Apple runs its interviews, round by round, from the candidates who went through them: the questions asked, how hard they were, and who got an offer.
Worked out from the 26 Apple write-ups on this site.
Hyderabad (6) · Barcelona (1) · Munich (1)
I interviewed for an SDE 3 position at Apple, completed a Java project round, answered Kafka questions, and designed a rate limiter, after which I progressed to later...
I interviewed for a Full Stack Software Engineer position at Apple. The interview consisted of a React JS coding round and a Java coding round.
I went through multiple interview rounds at Apple for a Full Stack Software Engineer position, including hiring manager, screening (backend and frontend), and loop/panel...
I interviewed with Apple IS&T team, solved a hard LeetCode problem in 40 minutes but was rejected after a poorly conducted interview.
I went through five interview rounds for an SDE role at Apple, covering DSA, system design, and behavioral topics, but was ultimately rejected.
I went through multiple interview rounds at Apple, cleared the initial technical rounds but ultimately received a non‑hire verdict.
I completed a 45‑minute C coderpad interview at Apple, answered three questions and solved them all, though I struggled to articulate my thought process.
I recently appeared for a Frontend Engineer role at Apple, undergoing two screening rounds which included both conceptual and coding problems, but ultimately I was...
I experienced a screening round at Apple where I was given a string manipulation problem involving generating all possible pretty odd statements from a nested list of...
My interview for a Full Stack Developer role at Apple included rounds focusing on React basics, Hooks, Virtual DOM, and a design problem involving a paginated table....
I had a two-round pure coding interview experience with Apple, covering problems on finding subarrays with a specific sum and designing an inorder binary tree iterator.
I recently had a 45-minute screening interview for a Software Engineer role at Apple's Ads Delivery Team in Hyderabad. The round focused primarily on my resume, past...
I recently had a phone screen for an ICT5 role at Apple, where I was presented with a specific board game problem related to capturing stones.
I recently had a phone screen with Apple where I was asked to convert a sorted linked list into a balanced binary search tree.
I interviewed with Apple for a Reliability Engineering IS&T Intern role, successfully navigating two rounds focusing on technical skills, problem-solving, collaboration,...
Across 26 Apple interview experiences shared on Interview Experiences, the questions asked were mostly other (39% of reported questions), data structures & algorithms (34% of reported questions), system design (15% of reported questions).
Candidates rated most Apple questions as medium (63% of rated questions). Easy: 13%, Medium: 63%, Hard: 24%.
33% of the 9 candidates who reported their result received an offer. People who share their experience are not a random sample, so treat this as a rough guide.
Questions reported more than once include "Trapping Rain Water", "Longest Common Prefix".
There are write-ups for Frontend Engineer (2), SDE 1 (1), SDE 2 (1), SDE 3 (1), Software Engineer (1), Senior Software Engineer (1).
The median candidate had 5.9 years of experience.
Write up your rounds while you still remember the questions. It is exactly what the next Apple candidate is searching for.
