Apple

SRE Engineer Interview Experience - Cupertino, California

October 1, 2024

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

5 rounds of interviews:

HM behavioral & experience related
Kubernetes knowledge
Coding (easy/medium)
Systems, Linux, debugging
System architecture design

Overall easy/medium, except for the Linux systems round which expects more low-level networking stack and Linux call stack knowledge.

Questions

K8s controllers and operators.

Request path for authentication to the cluster.

Design a GitHub clone for systems.

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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