I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Dec 2019
Interview
3 Phone Calls + 1 On Site. They put a lot of effort into narrowing the pool of applicants before giving on site offers. The on site interview consisted of 5 different individual and group interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Homework assignment for one of the phone calls was to create a Boggle Solver (finding all possible english words in a given boggle board). You are allowed to use any language of your choosing and you had multiple days to come up with a solution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle
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
Interview questions [1]
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.