Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 42% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 59 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Apple overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Apple as a Data Scientist according to 59 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
One on one interview: 17%
Presentation: 14%
Group panel interview: 13%
Background check: 9%
Skills test: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Personality test: 4%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
Initial interview steps were quite straightforward. Good conversation with the hiring manager, lots of alignment between my skills and their needs. Moved forward to technical screen, 1 hour of Python exercises and general data science reasoning. I'm not a brilliant coder but I was able to talk through my solutions and their shortcomings so I got invited to a full day on-site.
That's where things went sideways. Apple is incredibly secretive about the interview process, so not only did they not tell me who I would be meeting with, they refused to even tell me what subject matter would be covered. Naturally, I prepared in line with what I had discussed with the hiring manager and given my understanding of the role. I was then blindsided by interview after interview of highly technical machine learning and software development practice interviews, none of which focused on the actual application areas that were at the core of the role (NLP and dataset management). It was almost as if I was suddenly interviewing for a different job. Needless to say, things didn't work out.
Oh and then Apple refused to reimburse any of my expenses related to the onsite visit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe for me in detail the difference between L1 and L2 regularization, specifically as regards the difference in their impact on the model training process itself
I interviewed with recuirter and asked general questions reagrding why this coopnay and role, tell me about yourself and how do you connect with apple, it was easy and stright forward
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about yourself and why are you looking for a new job
First Round: 2 questions on SQL (hard) and Scenario based question was given. You have to provide a detailed answer on what kind of framework you would build on the scenario.
The interview process for the Data Scientist role at Apple consisted of three rounds
First round: screen with a recruiter
Second round: screen with a hiring manager
Third round: a virtual on-site with 3 interviews