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      Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 24, 2009
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Cupertino, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Mar 2009

      Interview

      I was first contacted with a recruiter, who set up a phone screen with a hiring manager. The first phone screen was technical and covered mostly operating system concepts and a little bit on data structures. It went well, so I was told that the recruiter would schedule a second phone screen with another team member. The recruiter scheduled the second phone screen. This phone screen was also technical and not much different (a lot of questions about operating systems). This one was not with a manager. The recruiter contacted me two days later and said they were going to "pass on me." Both of the interviewers I talked were pleasant to talk to and seemed intelligent. The only downside was that the second interview seemed to be more about what I could remember from my operating systems class than my experience and real capabilities. I thought I had done well on the second interview and I thought interviewer's attitude backed that up; there is no feedback on your answers.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Have you ever written multithreaded code? Tell me about it..
      Answer question

      Question 2

      What is a hash table? How do they work? What is the time complexity for a lookup? What happens if two keys are the same?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      What's your favorite feature about your favorite language? Tell me about it...
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Describe a depth-first search and a breadth-first search... What's the time complexity to iterate all nodes in a binary search tree?
      Answer question
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