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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Cupertino, California

October 1, 2014
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process consisted of a recruiter call, followed by one technical phone screen, and then an on-site interview.

The on-site interview involved two 2:1 interviews.

My first interview was with the Director of Engineering, which did not go well. Although the second interview went well, the first interview was the deciding factor.

Questions

Given busy slots as a data-set in a person's Outlook calendar (e.g., {(1000, 1200), (1415, 1530),...}) and the time required for a meeting (e.g., 45 mins), write a method to find an open, available slot for scheduling a meeting.

Given a deck of cards, write a method to determine if it is a "flush".

Multi-threading and data-related questions were quite simple and straightforward.

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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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