I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Dec 2018
Interview
Very bad experience with Engineering director
- got a call from recruiter and had a nice talk with very nice recruiter
- talked with hiring mgr (very nice person)
- got an invitation to on-site interview and did very well
- got very good positive feedback from all members who interviewed me
- another phone interview with director and asked me so much questions over 1hr
- another on-site over 1hr with director.
- after all this I got rejection. They didn't say exactly why but I know it's director's choice. They don't even care what other engineers say. Poor management. Bureaucracy is the word I can say for Apple. Very sad to see and I was very disappointed how they treated me like this.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Londres, Inglaterra)
Interview
Three in person interviews on the same day, HR and technical interviews. Some group activities and an individual programming test. Overall an enjoyable but challenging day. I did not have any initial phone/online interview, just got an email for the final round.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Nov 2018
Interview
I had a phone call with recruiter, followed by two in-person screenings and full on-site loop. From the first call to on-site it took about a month and a half. On-site consisted of 7 interviews with LOTS of behavioral questions (someone is scraping Amazon for interview ideas? :) ). I assume this is role and position-specific really, but I did not get any generic white board coding questions. Everything was more about domain-specific problems and discussions, which I think is great. The most frustrating part of the process was a part of the lunch interview when hiring manager asked tons of behavioral questions starting: "What if your unreasonable manager...". Overall it was a fun experience, very much different from everything else I have done during this interviewing cycle. I had to follow up with the recruiter in almost two weeks (Apple was closed for a week during Thanksgiving) to get the template rejection letter.