I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Oct 2009
Interview
I got a call from the HR seeing my resume online. I applied for compiler developer position and they called me for a position in the LLVM team. I had 2 levels of phone interview and finally didn't get through though. I had first level of interview with a Director who asked questions about my Masters research work and then I had another level with the manager and a developer who asked me general questions about my resume. The interview lasted for 30-40 min.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
The questions were general to give some ideas about a new project they were planning.
They asked me some behavioral questions like if I will be interested to work in software like Itunes in which you download a song but will not be able to play it in some other player.
Around 2 months after I submitted my resume for Apple software engineer position, I got a call from the hiring manager. He asked me what was the good day for the interview. It took half day for meeting 5 people. It was long hour interview for me. Each interviewer spent ~ 30 minutes and asked ~ 4 questions. Each interviewer asked questions in the different areas.
6 rounds. 1 Technical Screening. Then onsite loop consisted of 4 rounds of behavioral, 2 technicals, and 1 sys design. Had an additional Hiring Manager round since I was borderline.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LC Mediums and mentorship based behavioral questions.
6 rounds. Started with phone screen with HM about past projects.
Onsite rounds
1: OOD
2. Multi threading
3. Java design pattern and Immutable classes
4. HM
All the rounds were heavily focused on Java