I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (San Diego, CA) in Jul 2025
Interview
Manager meet and greet, technical screen panel. Nothing crazy two OOP design style questions. One pretty easy leet code style question solved with a hash table. Ton of behavioral questions sprinkled in between. Whole process took 4 weeks from recruiter contact to final decision.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a tic tac toe game with a front interface of some kind in mind.
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