Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 52 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Apple overall takes an average of 37 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Apple as a Software Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Skills test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Personality test: 20%
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple (San Diego, CA) in Jul 2025
Interview
Hard and not in line with expectations in job description. Came in prepared with materials from description and was asked very different stuff. Is what it is I suppose but didn’t feel very productive for either one of us.
Around 2 months after I submitted my resume for Apple software engineer position, I got a call from the hiring manager. He asked me what was the good day for the interview. It took half day for meeting 5 people. It was long hour interview for me. Each interviewer spent ~ 30 minutes and asked ~ 4 questions. Each interviewer asked questions in the different areas.
The interview was easy, we talked about technical stuff in-depth: os, drivers. If they think you know something, they would ask you till they find where your knowledge ends. So be ready
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Question 1
Why driver makes all pages that commands in command buffer will work with present in memory before submission?
6 rounds. 1 Technical Screening. Then onsite loop consisted of 4 rounds of behavioral, 2 technicals, and 1 sys design. Had an additional Hiring Manager round since I was borderline.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LC Mediums and mentorship based behavioral questions.