short phone interview with technical questions. The interviewer was late for the arranged phone call appointment but was very polite and direct during the interview process. Mostly technical questions to test basic engineering knowledge
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Jul 2014
Interview
Contacted recruiter via LinkedIn who then put me in touch with another recruiter who arranged a phone interview with a hiring manager. Conducted a phone interview in which I thought I conducted extremely poorly, but after a week and half I was sent a design challenge problem to complete over the next two weeks. The challenge required completing a design and describing how you got to your solution which was then documented and sent as a PowerPoint presentation. After several weeks passed received a message that I would be brought in for an in person interview which was going to possibly be two days long. The second day contingent on the first.
The first day was 8 hours long with at least 8 scheduled individuals. Unfortunately though Apple was extremely unorganized and only 4 showed during the day. I was even left forgotten after the last scheduled interviewer never showed. I finally decided to leave once no one came to find me after an hour passed beyond that. Two hours later I received a call from the hiring manager stating he had decided to pass on my application due to a lack of experience in a particular field, that he also stated he knew I had no experience in from the start all the back from the phone interview. No apologies for wasting 2 months of my time for something I had zero control over. The experience was interesting, challenging, and a very angering experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If I were to ask you what plastic this is (presenting to me a plastic component) what would you guess it would be?
Regular interview. Started at 10 ended at 2. With seven to eight people interviewing you with questions. Some very technical and some not technical at all, just explain your resume. Make sure you know everything very well on your resume and everything technically on the job description