I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Mar 2017
Interview
Phone screens with recruiter, then hiring manager. Then, all day interview session at campus. About 6 interviews, one of which was a coding exercise. Never got a "no" or a response to followups. Completely ghosted me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How have you dealt with a problem employee in the past?
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA)
Interview
Phone interview initially by recruiter but it was good then later call was scheduled with hiring manager. Within 7 days I had a chat with hiring manager. The call mostly on Management, product , Technical and my experience and what role I was being interviewed for.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Sep 2011
Interview
Lunch with the hiring director. A lot of questions about my background, and a very high level description of the responsibilities of the hiring group, any of my detailed questions were rebuffed with, "I can't talk about that." Like interviewing with the CIA, only more secretive. This was still in the Steve J. era so no idea if that's changed, but boy oh boy did it speak volumes about what the actual working environment must be like. If you ever fantasized about what it must have been like working on The Manhattan Project, well, look no further and join up with Apple immediately.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A lot of focus on "are you able and willing to code." It seems that this is a core expectation of engineering managers at Apple (who said such expectations were just for startups?)