I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Sep 2010
Interview
Phone interview which mainly consisted of a resume deep dive and a few technical questions related to prior work experience. Apart from the fact that Apple HR made multiple appointments to have phone interviews with me and they canceled the appointments without letting me know, they interviewer just called at her own sweet time and was pretty rude.