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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Cupertino, California

October 1, 2010
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The phone interview consisted of questions about my past work experience.

Then I was called for an on-site interview. The interview lasted five hours, with thirty-minute interviews with ten people, including one with HR. Most of the questions were about my past experience as well.

It included a lot of drawing on the whiteboard to explain the architecture of software I had worked on. There were some programming questions, which were quite simple, such as:

  • Code for the Fibonacci series and factorial using both recursive and non-recursive methods.
  • Counting the number of 1s in a variable.
  • Writing code for a circular buffer.

I also had questions on OS, like memory management, interrupt handling, and preemption.

I thought I did well, but I did not receive an offer.

Questions

Write code for writing to a circular buffer.

Write code for generating a factorial/Fibonacci for a given number using both recursive and non-recursive methods. Advantages and disadvantages of each method.

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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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