I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Nov 2010
Interview
Interview is broken up into several phases. Some interview sessions have 2 people peppering you questions from 30-45 minutes.
Questions focused on:
1) Examples of a project shipped
2) How to create a schedule and track deliverables
3) Talk about a very difficult and technical problem that you had to work to help solve
4) Theoretical role playing on what happens if you are about to hit a deadline and a senior exec comes and throws a wrench into the schedule
5) Career goals
You will interview with a variety of PM's, testers and dev leads
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing was unexpected. To be frank the project management org in apple is fairly non-technical and very unimpressive. Dev and Testers are superb however.
felt like they are looking for someone who had the exact same experience before. The hiring manager seemed very bored and actually that intimidated me during the interview. Not behavioral based
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If I have any experience of using tools like SQL/Python
It was hard. You had to very well prepared for this interview and if you weren't, you'd be screwed. Please make sure you study hard for weeks on end or else it'll be super hard.
I applied online. I interviewed at Apple (New York, NY)
Interview
I think every team at Apple runs their own process. Here was my experience:
I had a hiring screen, then a behavioral screen, and then a technical screen.
After that, there was a super day meeting with 5 individuals in 1 on 1 interviews
(1) Product experience
(2) Product design
(3) Engineering partnership
(4) Team Fit / Culture Fit
(5) Leadership / Potential
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you’re given a black box and you can get all the data you want, what data would you want?
Technical Project Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 27% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Technical Project Manager roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 15 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 Technical Project Manager according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 34%
One on one interview: 31%
Group panel interview: 14%
Presentation: 7%
Skills test: 7%
Background check: 3%
Personality test: 3%
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