I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in May 2015
Interview
I had a casual interview with the director of project management, the hiring manager and then the formal interview process started.
I then interviewed with the hiring manager's boss, two other team member, who would be my peers, an engineer and the engineering manager and then the hiring manager again. Each session was for 45 min.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your project management style?
How would you protect the engineering group?
Why do you want to change / apply for this position?
Describe how you would approach a project with just a high level, vague requirement.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in May 2014
Interview
I was referred via an emplyee a week before I was contacted by a recruiter. She right away scheduled a phone interview with the hiring manager without interviewing me. My phone interview (20min) with the hiring manager went well. He asked about my current position and why did I fit with their position. At the end of the call he also explained about his two job openings. I had two onsite interviews. One was Full day, and the other was half day. The full day inteview was tough. Every half an hour a new person would come in and almost none of them had read my resume so I had to go over all my experiences and education. Questions were both about my experience and personal. The second day was more technical. Interviews were so frustrating I must say. I would say out of 10 people whom I saw 7 of them were constantly looking at their cell phones and were distracted. But all of the people whom interviewed me were so nice and reasonable. Next day after the second interview I got a call from the reruiter to discuss my salary and I was told that I'm being hired. The whole process took a month.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
No unexpected questions were asked! Probably the technical questions were a bit difficult but expected...
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple
Interview
Was contacted by a recruiter. He arranged for a 1 hour phone interview with a hiring manager. After that I was invited to the corporate campus for an interview consisting of 8 30-minute long interviews with various engineers and managers. A week after the interview, I was informed that they had selected another candidate, which I do appreciate. I was also given feedback by the recruiter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Part of the problem with Apple's interview style is that you tend to get asked the same questions over and over by different people who didn't have a chance to hear you answer previously. Also 30 minutes per person isn't really enough time to get to know one another.