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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Cupertino, California

December 1, 2012
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The phone interviews consisted of an initial screening that involved general OO design. Then, the phone interviews asked for more detailed technical tasks.

They are often very interested in past projects, so be able to talk at length about things you've worked on.

On-site interviews were long, from 9:45 AM to 4:30 PM, consisting of six 45-minute interviews. Questions ranged from debugging a toy program they had written to designing an application you were planning to work on.

Questions

Reverse a C string that has a special character encoding. Special characters are two bytes and are preceded by a flag character. This flag character is represented by the highest bit being set to 1, and the following bits specify how many special characters will follow. The special characters can be interspersed between normal characters.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 162 interview experiences for the Apple Software Engineer role in Cupertino, California.

Success Rate

22%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive57%
Neutral23%
Negative20%

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

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