Software QA Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software QA Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Apple overall takes an average of 42 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Apple as a Software QA Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Presentation: 50%
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HR Screening, Interview with Manager, and a series of panel interviews. Lengthy interview process but pretty standard to most interviews today. Got to meet a great team and had conversational interviews
Call with manager, SQL and coding questions. the SQL questions seemed to be asked off the top of the manager’s head so the best preparation is to be well versed in simple SQL.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Jun 2025
Interview
Since I had interviewed for another QA role a couple of months back, I was directly screened for the "Hiring Manager round" this time.
It was a quick 30-min QA technical interview with a couple of behavioral questions.
I got enough time to ask HM a few questions at the end.
It has been good so far..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. How did you use your "positive influence" to impact a project?
2. How do you define priority and severity?
3. What constitutes a good bug report?