Apple Software Engineer(Internship) interview questions
based on 107 ratings - Updated May 4, 2026
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Dec 2024
Interview
3 technical interviews and LC medium in 1st, LC hard in 2nd and Self made question in 3rd. The 3rd interview was tough with OS questions on memory allocation. Overall a really good experience but the recruiter took like forever to give the results.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Apple in Dec 2025
Interview
- Invited to recruiting event at university
- Spoke to team lead for 5 minutes and was invited to a 30 minute interview/conversation a few hours later
- Interview consisted of 2 leetcode easies - just verbal, and then general discussion about team
- Moved on to second round technical which was designing a React component given constraints - was allowed to use Internet and LLMs
- Seemed very team specific
Overall smooth, had 3 interviews one behavioral and 2 technical, heavy system design and debugging. Interviewers were nice, standard interview format with an introduction and then mostly technical questions. Some OOP concepts needed as well
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Explain the difference between polymorphism and inheritence