Software Engineer II Interview Experience - Cupertino, California
Process
After several phone screens (4), I was flown down to Apple's campus. Everything happened in one week.
The on-site interview was long. It started at 9:15 am and I left campus around 6:00 pm. There were 15 separate 30-minute interviews.
About 4 of them were personality-type interviews to assess whether or not I would be a good fit for the team I would work for, and the rest were all skill-based interviews.
Lots of questions about my skills with Perl, Unix CLI, and Objective-C.
There were many questions geared toward discovering my problem-solving ability. I was asked to write a lot of code on the whiteboard, and my knowledge was pushed to its limits.
Everyone, however, was very kind and very bright. It was a whirlwind of a week.
Questions
Write some useful regular expressions from memory.
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Apple Work Experiences
- 4.0It's a software engineering jobSoftware Engineer II • Current EmployeeCupertino, California, United StatesMarch 29, 2025Pros: The pay is good, and the team is lovely.Cons: Cupertino is a dead town. A lot of people live in San Jose, which is better but still not much of a city.
- 5.0Excellent place to workSoftware Engineer II • Current EmployeeCupertino, California, United StatesSeptember 7, 2011Pros: Great culture. Great co-workers. Great products. Great pay. I can't complain. It is such a great pleasure to work for Apple.Cons: There are never enough minutes in the day to finish the amount of work that I have to get done.
- 2.0Good place for those with wives and kidsSoftware Engineer II • Current EmployeeCupertino, California, United StatesMay 23, 2009Pros: Great product. Somehow, they manage to churn out good products. Salaries are decent. Stock price is going up.Cons: People are really not that smart. Most are middle-aged. The young guys are the kind who are not very ambitious (yeah, I have a girlfriend, so I want to get done with the work). It is the kind of place where if you were to suggest some startup idea over lunch, they (your colleagues) will shoot it down. Very uninspiring.
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