Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 66% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Intern roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 193 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 Intern according to 193 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 14%
Background check: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Personality test: 6%
Group panel interview: 3%
Drug test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Pittsburgh, PA) in Oct 2015
Interview
This process was actually super crazy, because I was interviewing with a bunch of teams at once and Apple has some interesting policies about that. I first connected with a recruiter at my school's career fair, who really liked me and forwarded my resume to a bunch of teams. One particularly cool team reached out to me shortly after and set up a technical phone interview. None of the questions were too difficult but they did make me think pretty hard, pretty standard coding interview "solve this puzzle" type questions. Within two days after, I heard back that my phone interview went great and that I had moved on to another interview.
I was surprised to find out that this interview was not technical, and was actually a final interview with the engineering manager of the team! She asked me about my projects and what ideas I had for the product that their team works on. I decided to follow up and email my recruiter a thank you for the interviews. He responded back immediately that the team was interested in next steps, but due to Apple policy, couldn't move forward until I was finished interviewing with the other teams. After I'd had a few interviews with other teams, I decided this team was my first choice and I didn't want to wait in case anything changed, so I emailed my recruiter to let him know. He responded the next day with an offer!
My other Apple interviews with different teams were all very different. It goes to show how much the particular team you're interviewing with influences the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of brain teaser algorithm questions. Had to use hash tables and binary trees. Some object oriented programming.
I received an invitation for an internship opportunity, which I was genuinely excited about because the company seems like a great place to work and grow professionally. After I replied, however, I did not hear back, which was a little disappointing. The communication process could definitely have been better, but my overall impression of the company remains very positive. It still looks like an excellent workplace, and I would be happy to have the chance to join the team in the future.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Apple
Interview
45 min screening round. asked general questions about the physical design process including basics like setup/hold. asked me to draw circuits and basic digital design concepts. wasn't too difficult but they ghosted me
Resume based shortlist and interview of 2 rounds core concept based questions only no dsa i only attended round 1 didnt shortlist for round 2 it was easy but my interviewer were asking situation based questions