I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Apple (Hyderabad)
Interview
1. Tech 1 and Tech 2 will decide if you are eligible for Apple.
2. Other tech rounds will be project specific rounds.
In my case, after 7 tech rounds they realized that there is no project aligning with my skills and other than this 7 interviews, 3 times I got ghosted. Nobody joined the interview meeting and nobody replied and next day, HR will send a sorry note with future interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. How to design a Applicant Tracking System?
2. How to design a messaging system with different failover scenarios.
3. Optimize factorial program
There were few more designing questions which I don't remember but those were not too hard.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Apple in May 2022
Interview
I was referred by a current Apple employee. The recruiters were very quick and responsive during the whole process. It took less than 2 days to schedule the first interview after I was referred. 1 hour phone screen followed by a 4 hour virtual onsite. Each interview focused on a different question/problem. All problems were solved/worked through using pseudocode, I never actually had to run any code. No behavioral interviews other than a few teamwork questions sprinkled in the technical interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked some basic string parsing and caching design questions. Nothing beyond a medium difficulty question on LeetCode.
2 rounds technical interviews leetcode + practical questions from manager and the team. challenging questions but decent. help you to learn the team. also behaverial questions like past exp at other places