I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Feb 2014
Interview
After two rounds of phone interview, onsite interview was offered. The onsite interview has two rounds. In the first round, there are five people in total, including hiring manager, director and 3 other group members. They mainly asked what I did in my Ph.D dissertation and basic technical questions like static timing analysis, common low power techniques, setup/hold violation, MBIST, scan test, perl coding etc. In the second round, first 2 people are engineers from different groups. They mainly asked verilog coding. The last people asked a couple of intelligence questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most unexpected question is which part of your Ph.D work makes you proud the most.
Had a HR screening first and then went to 1st round of technical interview. The HR interview is short and happened over phone call. The technical interview happens over webex.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HR: Location preferences, availability, GPA
Technical: CDC, Metastability in digital circuit, State Diagram of Sequence Detector, Clock and Power Gating.
It was good everyone were easy to talk to and helpful when stuck. Position experience. Questions were medium difficulty. It was related to asic design. Had an interview screening then panel interview
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Apple
Interview
Contacted by HR and had a brief phone screen to talk about past coursework and interest. 1st round technical interview on timing constraints, bus protocols, and verilog coding. Also digged into projects on resume.