Apple

QA Engineer Interview Experience - Cupertino, California

February 1, 2018

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I received an opportunity from a recruiter.

The process involved finishing a coding exercise, a phone interview, and then an onsite interview.

The onsite interview lasted about 2.5 hours, with five people rotating in and out to ask questions.

Questions

Write a function that would plot given (x, y) coordinates and find outliers in the graph.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 10 interview experiences for the Apple QA Engineer role in Cupertino, California.

Success Rate

20%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive40%

Neutral50%

Negative10%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Apple's QA 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