Apple

SRE Engineer Interview Experience

March 1, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

DM from LinkedIn from the hiring manager.

Scheduled a meeting, had a few questions, and answered them quite well, I think, but no answer after.

Asked why, and he said I won't be moving to the next stage.

Questions

Why do you want to work at Apple?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Apple SRE Engineer role.

Success Rate

14%

Pass Rate

Apple's interview process for their SRE Engineer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive71%

Neutral29%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Apple's SRE Engineer interview process.

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