The interview went well overall. The interviewer opened with a discussion about a project I'm proud of, then a beam scenario question that covered structural and load analysis, stress and deflection, and material selection — testing my ability to connect first-principles thinking across the full problem space.
Entrevista difícil
Solicitud
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Apple en jun 2011
Entrevista
I was contacted by an Apple recruiter to set up a phone interview with the hiring manager. I had a phone interview with the hiring manager in two days. The initial phone interview was about half an hour, and was technical. I was a asked a few questions about my background, and then several technical questions typical of this type of job. As the end of the interview I was given a take home design test to complete in one week. The test was designing a component and documenting my design steps. They liked the result, and the recruiter called me in a few days to set up an onsite interview. The onsite interview consisted of about ten one-on-one or one-on-two interviews. I learned about the interview outcome shortly afterward.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
How would you design components and mechanisms for Apple products?
Me postulé a través de una facultad o universidad. Acudí a una entrevista en Apple (Cupertino, CA) en abr 2026
Entrevista
Interview with hiring manager then virtual onsite. They ask you general mechanical engineering questions as well as questions dependent on type of team and skills they are looking for. Not bad overall just brush up on basic beam deflection, GD&T, Design analysis etc.
They gave me a take home tolerance analysis worksheet. It was essentially a tolerance stack up for one of their products and felt fairly straight forward. Thought I answered it well but ultimately they decided to move forward with other candidates.