Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 1 día. Acudí a una entrevista en Apple en jul 2010
Entrevista
I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn describing job opportunities at Apple. I currently work in a very narrow area of expertise, which is 3D graphics for embedded systems, and so they thought I was a good fit for their position. I explained to the recruiter that in order for me to switched jobs the position had to appeal me and so he said I was going to be interviewing for a Display Controller role, which of course I wasn't that excited about, then he said that there were more positions opening up and that I could interview for any of them, so I agreed after I saw a Software Engineering role. The recruiter scheduled the phone interview a week later and he said the manager of one of the teams was going to do the interview. To be honest I really prepared for this phone interview and I concentrated on generic Computer Graphics concepts, Operating System concepts and C++ concepts, and to my surprise that were exactly the topics we covered during the interview. To my surprised though the manager of the team didn't show up but rather a technical lead with a very strong asian accent, so I was asking to repeat himself on my occasions. In general I thought I did a decent interview as I was fully prepared yet he thought I wasn't really a good fit for the position; I had the feeling because they were so desperately trying to fill the display controller role for which I already said no, yet during the phone interview the tech lead guy did ask me if I was interested on that role!
Around 2 months after I submitted my resume for Apple software engineer position, I got a call from the hiring manager. He asked me what was the good day for the interview. It took half day for meeting 5 people. It was long hour interview for me. Each interviewer spent ~ 30 minutes and asked ~ 4 questions. Each interviewer asked questions in the different areas.
6 rounds. 1 Technical Screening. Then onsite loop consisted of 4 rounds of behavioral, 2 technicals, and 1 sys design. Had an additional Hiring Manager round since I was borderline.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
LC Mediums and mentorship based behavioral questions.
6 rounds. Started with phone screen with HM about past projects.
Onsite rounds
1: OOD
2. Multi threading
3. Java design pattern and Immutable classes
4. HM
All the rounds were heavily focused on Java