I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple (Xangai, Xangai) in Jun 2016
Interview
I have only undergone the campus recruiter's calling interview. There was no announcement that you would suddenly get the phone call at any working time. The interview was not complex that the recruiter mainly asked me about my major, my personal situation, why I want to apply apple's position, my future plan, what projects did I do and intro them briefly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You said that you are actually applying a master program of your major, whether you would still persue a master degree or choose to work if you get the full-time job at Apple?
Had 2 rounds of phone interview. First with an HR and with project hiring manager. Interview with HR took about 20 minutes. She talked about the company and the position. Then did 30 minutes phone interview with the project manger and was asked about some project experiences.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Feb 2016
Interview
I got contacted by a recruiter that I met at a career fair, and had a couple phone interviews. After two phone interviews with two people on the PD team, I did not end up getting another round. I was not prepared for the questions they were going to ask me. I definitely should have prepared more because they try to stump you. They asked me some behavioral questions like what are your 3 biggest weaknesses as and engineer, as well as hard technical ones that I could have answered by reading off a table from a textbook. In fact, I indicated that I could look it up, and got scolded as I was informed that that was not the point of this technical interview. So word of advice: Ask politely before any technical questions if its okay to look something up, or just don't look stuff up. The advice that I got from them afterward was that they just want to see my process, so always explain your thoughts.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
If you had a string and wrapped tightly around the world and you wanted to lift it up 1 m off the ground everywhere, how much would the string have to stretch?