I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Apple (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2017
Interview
Got an email from one colleague of hiring manager first and talked to him that day about interest etc. Then had an interview for around 45 minutes with the hiring manager - digging deeper on some of my technical work. I followed up with her after 10 days, she said they want to invite me on-site. Heard from Recruiter after another 4 days (and another reminder from hiring manager to her) - got scheduled to visit 2 weeks later. In between no response from the recruiter about any feedback on the technical presentation I was supposed to give - so I emailed the hiring manager directly.
Interview Day
Started with a brief HR interview with the recruiter for around half an hour followed by an hour for my technical talk. Then six separate 45-minute interviews with teammates of the hiring manager (there was lunchtime in between - with the hiring manager).
I thought it went well. Everyone seemed nice friendly and passionate about what they are doing.
Asked recruiter after a week - she said they remain interested and get back in few weeks - three weeks later she said I was a good fit but not a great fit.
I think lot/most people who may make it to the on-site stage could be a good fit but many other factors (including internal) may finally determine the outcome.
Just be yourself and honest with whatever you say.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Santa Clara, CA) in Jan 2026
Interview
I had a one on one with the hiring manager and then a eight hour loop with four one on ones, a design challenge, a presentation, and another one on one with the hiring manager
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Apple (Mountain View, CA) in Dec 2025
Interview
Coding interview using colab (no need to run the code). They paste the problem as you go and 3 questions in total. The role is about AI and LLM so the question is based on that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LLM decoding problems and the question of using softmax.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Apple (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Feb 2025
Interview
2 different Interviewers each an hour separately, asked me to summarize one of my previous papers and asked a few short questions about it, and then each asked about 5 technical questions in various topics
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked questions about different topics, from what I can recall
1. Describing Inpainting models during training and inference
2. Suggest a training framework for the face recognition on Iphones
3. What is vanishing gradients and what network architecture was proposed to solve this issue.
4. How to calculate Phi without using any prior