Data Scientist 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.
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Austin, TX) in Dec 2019
Interview
A phone screen with a recruiter, followed by a homework assignment, followed by an all-day onsite interview. Interviewers were kind and asked thoughtful questions at all stages. Take water and a snack to onsite interview.
I applied online. I interviewed at Apple (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2019
Interview
straight forward, basic statistic questions. production questions are centered on apple's own and they expect just some basic knowledge and elaborate on thought process. Coding is leetcode easy. i think culture and team fit is very important
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Apr 2019
Interview
I went through 3 phone interviews before I was invited for an on-site interview. The first interview was a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager. He asked about my past experience and basic data science questions. The next call was with a data scientist on the team who asked me to code in python. The third call was with a senior data scientist that asked basic machine learning questions. The on-site interview was a whole day ordeal. I got there at 10:30 am and left at 4:30 pm. There were several 30-minute meetings with data scientists, machine learning engineers, managers, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is Variance and Bias?
How do you decide whether one classification algorithm is better than the other?
What is a naive bayes classifier?
Describe neural network
Draw a confusion matrix and calculate precision and recall
Coding questions included binary tree implementation and computing ngrams in python.