Apple Developer interview questions

Contacted by a recruiter, told to sign an NDA. Interviewer failed to call at the appointed time, so I was forced to call the recruiter to let her know. Interviewer finally called, asked me a series of vague questions and seemed more interested in whether I would make a good, indentured, H-1B sweatshop worker than in the R&D I do. This seems par for the course with these H-1B companies, which is why I returned to physics R&D. There is nothing worse than wasting your PhD in a sweatshop that turns to Infosys and Foxconn for its workers. I admire Steve Jobs, but have little respect for Apple after this interview. Somebody should tell Congress that the H-1B is not being used to import PhDs. It is being used to import indentured, entry-level coders.

Questions where about low level computer internals. I was asked programming problems and to optimize everything the more I could. The whole process was way more about the field I'm working in, not an abstract programming process with no interest in my knowledge.