Apple

Embedded Software Engineer Interview Experience - Cupertino, California

May 31, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The recruiter reached out first and asked several questions about my background.

Then, I talked to the hiring manager. After that, the recruiter sent me a take-home OA to be finished within several days.

Questions

They asked a project I worked on in detail.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 9 interview experiences for the Apple Embedded Software Engineer role in Cupertino, California.

Success Rate

22%

Pass Rate

Apple's interview process for their Embedded Software Engineer roles in Cupertino, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive89%

Neutral0%

Negative11%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Apple's Embedded Software Engineer interview process in Cupertino, California.

Apple Interview Questions

LRU Cache

Medium

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Linked ListsDynamic Programming

Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

Easy

You're given daily stock prices. Find the maximum profit you can make by buying and selling the stock once. You must buy before you sell.

ArraysDynamic ProgrammingGreedy Algorithms

Top K Frequent Elements

Medium

Find the k most frequent elements in a given array of numbers. Return the top k elements based on their frequency.

ArraysStacks