I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple in Nov 2010
Interview
I was told to have the interview on campus after a career fair. I had interviews with two people from different teams. The first person asked me many questions about my previous experiences, like what things I had done in the past. Then he asked me several easy technical questions. An example question is what to consider when doing object-oriented programming. I said loose coupling is important. It went pretty well but it didn't get into deeper questions.
The second person I met asked me some UI questions. Obvious he's looking for engineers that are willing to do front-end work and have a good design sense. I showed him some of my designs. Later, he switch gears to lower-level problems relating to OS. Some of the questions he asked include "Tell me about the difference between a process and a thread?", "How to prevent dead lock?", and "What's the difference between stack and heap? Which one is faster?". I was not so prepared for some of the OS questions so it didn't go so well.
Both interview went for about half an hour. I appreciate both of them being very patient and nice during the process.
the manager first ask me to introduce myself and then let me share my expirance about my previous job.Everything goes well,manager are very nice and I'm every happy to have this chance
Had great conversations with everybody throughout the process it was definitely very thorough, however did not get a response after a few rounds which was a bit disappointing, would recommend at least giving candidates closure if they didn't make it to the next rounds after investing time into the process already
It’s group interviews all the way through! Very competitive and each person is asked the same question and given time to answer it. The first interview is with the general manager, then it moves up to the store manager. There are 2 rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name one time that you made an impact on someone’s experience.