The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple in Sept 2009
Interview
I was interviewed on campus (my school) by an Engineering Manager. He was a hiring manager for the CPU Software team. However, they said they had several openings in different teams and the interview was for all of them. And it indeed was. The questions were very generic, but mostly compiler kind of questions - size of struct, loops, find errors in code,big endian-small endian, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Showed a struct definition in C and asked its size?
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