I received a message from an Apple recruiter.

It started with the usual HR screen, followed by a quick chat with the hiring manager. That round covered basics in SystemVerilog (SV), UVM phases, and a few light coding questions about arrays and constraints.

Next, I spoke with a couple of managers for team matching and moved ahead with one of them.

Then came the real grind: six rounds over two days. These covered SV, UVM, digital design, coverage, timing diagrams, and even topics like polymorphism and scoreboard design.

One round, for instance, had me sketch out a basic DV architecture, while another focused purely on debugging and constraint logic.

There wasn't a formal behavioral round; most of it involved deep dives into fundamentals and design thinking. Overall, it was pretty technical and intense.

I would advise brushing up on the basics and being ready to defend your design choices. A weak round can be detrimental even if others go well.

Show how to implement a module that yields the dot product of two vectors.