Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Aug 2013
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Contacted by HR via linkedin - sent the resume - set up the interview: 3 rounds of phone interviews. 1 round with the manager, introducing me with the current openings and went over my resume to find out where my interest and strength is. 2nd interview with an engineer on one team, asking my experience in his realm and decided that I should be a good fit for another team -- thank god they had several openings for my area. With that said, 3rd round was a talk with the engineer on that particular team, which was determined to be a smooth and pleasant conversation because both sides knew the result in advance.
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Why did you go to XXX university for your grad program?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Nov 2012
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I submitted my resume at a career fair at my university. There were only two phone screens, one with someone on another team that works closely with the hiring manager, and the other with the actual hiring manager. The first one went very well - had a great conversation. I was told the second one was going to be more technical, but it really wasn't. It was just the same kind of behavioral/experience questions.
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There weren't really any unexpected questions. Just going over my experience on my resume, and diving into some of the projects I've done, occasionally asking some easy related technical questions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Apple in Feb 2013
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Submitted my resume at a college career fair. They asked some interesting questions at the fair, sort of like puzzles. A few days later I got an email asking to set up a phone interview. This was about half an hour long. He started out by asking a bunch of questions about my background and details about projects I have done, and what fields (within EE) I was interested in. He then, at the end, told me what the group did. My focus was more IC design, but at the end he told me it was a board design position, which did not make me seem like the best fit.
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Asked many detailed questions about board layout on one of my previous projects, including some transmission line and impedance matching concepts that I did not know about.