I applied through university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Champaign, IL) in Sept 2016
Interview
Talked to CPU design team member at the Apple Corporate day at UIUC. Next week, was emailed expressing interest, and interviewed the following weeek. The process requires multiple phone screen with engineers before on on-site is exteneded. During the phone screens, the interviewers didn't ask me about myself at all, he got right down to technical questions for the entirety of the 30 minute phone screen.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
What is the scope of a static variable? Given multiple scenarios(static variables across files, in recursion, ect.)
I applied through university. I interviewed at Apple
Interview
For interns, they have 4 phone interviews of 30 min each. Usually, they do 1 interview initially before scheduling the other 3. The interviewers usually are different members of the team which work on separate parts of the design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain how an out-of-order processor works? How do you implement register renaming? Difference between an architectural and physical register file
I applied through university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Apple (Champaign, IL) in Oct 2016
Interview
Went to campus career fair and had a successful on-campus interview where the technical questions were entirely based off of my resume experiences, proceeded to first round phone interview after which I was rejected
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
On-campus:
Verilog code writing, simple hardware design question using muxes and counter that was approached from different levels of abstraction.
Phone Interview:
Entirely computer architecture questions, including cache coherency protocols, cache organizations