Almost everyone in engineering at Apple is very qualified and capable, and everyone wants to do the right thing for our customers and the company.
The engineering campus is modern and nice. The cafeteria is quite good as well and is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
There's no requirement that you be in at work by a certain time. Engineers have a fair amount of control over what they work on and how it's designed.
Apple is very compartmentalized, and this secrecy affects and sometimes hurts Apple and the employees who work in different engineering areas of the company. You're not going to get filthy rich working at Apple on stock or options, but you will get reasonably compensated.
Sometimes the barriers erected to try to maintain secrecy remain around too long or are too broad.
I interviewed with one of the OS platform teams for a Sr. Developer role. A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn, as I had experience in the domain. After a few back-and-forth emails with the recruiter, I had a call with him where we discussed my
It was very intense. I sat with a variety of people on the team and interviewed all day, encountering different personalities and different perspectives of the job. This was a very good tactic to find out what the person is all about. They learned a
HR call followed by an engineering coding interview. The 60-minute coding round was divided into debugging and coding. I was not selected for the next round, perhaps due to the high number of candidates interviewing for the same position.
I interviewed with one of the OS platform teams for a Sr. Developer role. A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn, as I had experience in the domain. After a few back-and-forth emails with the recruiter, I had a call with him where we discussed my
It was very intense. I sat with a variety of people on the team and interviewed all day, encountering different personalities and different perspectives of the job. This was a very good tactic to find out what the person is all about. They learned a
HR call followed by an engineering coding interview. The 60-minute coding round was divided into debugging and coding. I was not selected for the next round, perhaps due to the high number of candidates interviewing for the same position.