I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Apple
Interview
One friend referred me to several positions, after about a week, contacted by the HR in the kernel driver team, scheduled two phone interviews, two onsite interviews, one phone interview from Executive team.
Was reached out by recruiter since resume was in their database. Recruiter set up screening.
Screen with hiring manager going over background and one coding question.
Followed up a week later with a 1 hour technical interview with an engineer on the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reverse a linked list. Test case to check if linked list is reversed. Test case to check if linked list of dupe values is reversed.
Software Engineer - Kernel applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer - Kernel roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 2 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 Software Engineer - Kernel according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 40%
Skills test: 20%
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