Apple Operations Manager interview questions

Multi-interview process with initial screening, second step being an assessment, third step a call with the team manager and last step an interview with the team, overall good but challenging.

The usual 7 round interview process, however they dragged me through the process for 5 months only to be rejected citing it came down to me and another candidate but they chose to offer the other candidate - I have reasons to believe they offered it to an internal candidate. It’s frustrating when companies post jobs on external website only for the sake of compliance when they already have an internal candidate to fill that position.