Apple

Embedded Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

October 9, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

Phone interview with the hiring manager. This was not hard, consisting of basic OS questions. The interviewer was friendly. It takes ten days to get the result.

After that, there are four rounds of panel interviews.

Questions

Ring buffer vs. thread vs. process: Hard, very basic.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 25 interview experiences for the Apple Embedded Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

16%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive60%

Neutral24%

Negative16%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Apple's Embedded Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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