I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Sunnyvale, CA) in Mar 2022
Interview
Very dry. Only technical questions from the hiring manager. Didn't seem interested in anything about me as an individual. No enthusiasm about his role or the one he was hiring for. After talking to the hiring manager, it became clear the role owned about 3x my current role. I asked the recruiter if that was accurate and they assured me it would absolutely require over 40 hours per week minimum. I've stopped taking calls from Apple recruiters after this.
Hard to talk to. People were interesting. Didn’t come to the interview prepared so that made talking to them weird and made conversation difficult. Other than that it was fine.
Multi-interview process with initial screening, second step being an assessment, third step a call with the team manager and last step an interview with the team, overall good but challenging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe your previous experience as an operations manager
The usual 7 round interview process, however they dragged me through the process for 5 months only to be rejected citing it came down to me and another candidate but they chose to offer the other candidate - I have reasons to believe they offered it to an internal candidate. It’s frustrating when companies post jobs on external website only for the sake of compliance when they already have an internal candidate to fill that position.