I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple in Dec 2014
Interview
It took about a week and a half for HR to contact me and schedule two interviews. The first one was with the team leader and the second with another engineer at the firm. The first interview was a little personal, but mostly technical, where I answered an algorithm question in C. The second one was harder, and also included a C programming question. Both interviewers were very helpful and pleasant, and gave some hints when needed.
After a week I was notified that I had passed on to the next stage, and they're supposed to be another stage afterwards.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
I needed to code an algorithm that manages a parking lot. Only one car gets to the entrance at a time, and there are two sensors. One at the entrance and one at the exit. This is a 24/7 working lot, and I had two other functions to use, openGate() and closeGate(). When a car gets to the lot, if there is free spot the gate needs to be opened and closed afterwards. If it is full the car will wait until there is free spot so the exit needs to be monitored using the sensor as well.
Get a number of spots in an area. How many lines will you have between all dots? How will you map them? How can you find the shortest distance? Can you tell between which dots is the shortest distance? All in C coding.
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.
The interview was easy, we talked about technical stuff in-depth: os, drivers. If they think you know something, they would ask you till they find where your knowledge ends. So be ready
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why driver makes all pages that commands in command buffer will work with present in memory before submission?
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LC Mediums and mentorship based behavioral questions.