Talented Engineers, Designers, etc. in Intense, Fast-Paced Culture
Talented Engineers, Designers, etc. in Intense, Fast-Paced Culture
- Many extremely smart people throughout the company that you can work with and learn from.
- Top-tier, beautiful facilities.
- Pretty good employee benefits (health insurance, cafe, etc.).
- Pride and passion for work.
- Significant DEI efforts.
- If you're on the dev release cycle, expect long, intense work hours.
- Your experience, culturally and professionally, will heavily depend on your individual team. Team cultures can really vary; each team basically is its own startup.
- There's a gender imbalance on most engineering teams, despite significant DEI efforts.
- Find a team with work styles, values, etc., that you greatly mesh with, because this will determine 95% of your experience.
- If you join a team on the dev cycle, there is an extremely significant chance that you will be working intense hours.
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I had three interviews for the CarPlay team: two technical and one behavioral. The role was advertised as full-stack plus systems, but I was unexpectedly asked a lot of ML (Machine Learning) questions during the second technical interview, which I d
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The interview process was comprehensive and well-structured, starting with a recruiter screen before moving into Round 1, which was a behavioral conversation with the hiring manager focusing on past projects, collaboration, and situational questions.
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Cupertino, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2024I had three interviews for the CarPlay team: two technical and one behavioral. The role was advertised as full-stack plus systems, but I was unexpectedly asked a lot of ML (Machine Learning) questions during the second technical interview, which I d
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Cupertino, California, United StatesJune 19, 2015My process was expedited because Apple acquired the company where I was going to work. Apple flew me out for a single day of on-site interviews, during which I had three 2-on-1 sessions. There was no effort to get to know me in any of them. Each inte
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Cupertino, California, United StatesOctober 22, 2026The interview process was comprehensive and well-structured, starting with a recruiter screen before moving into Round 1, which was a behavioral conversation with the hiring manager focusing on past projects, collaboration, and situational questions.
