Apple Interview Experiences & Questions
22 real Apple interviews shared by candidates: every round, the questions they were asked, how they answered, and whether they got the offer. Latest: Jul 2026.
What to expect at Apple
Based on 22 real interviews
By role
The Apple interview process
Most common round types: Behavioral (9), Coding (7), System Design (7), Project Discussion (5), Technical (5), Cross-Functional (4).
Real Apple interview questions
- Can you walk me through your background and the projects you've worked on?
- Design an on-device video super resolution model.
- Given a JSON file of records, write a program that consumes it and returns the filtered results based on the requirement.
- How would you use AI to improve the testing coverage and reliability of a service?
- How would you build a new product or feature for a hypothetical user need?
- Walk me through the take-home you submitted and explain your design decisions.
- Walk me through the scope of your current role.
- Tell me about a conflict you resolved.
- Here is a large Python file with three bugs. Find where the bugs are coming from and fix them.
- How would you work with cost management or finance to manage host cost effectively for a large observability system?
- How would you go about scoping improvements to the quality of a machine learning model?
- Tell me about a product you built that used AI or large language models at scale to solve a customer problem.
- Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a teammate.
- probabilistic questions and code it up
- Build a Go implementation to manage requests within a certain time span.
- We are replacing an old metrics storage system with scaling issues. How would you migrate the data without interrupting live traffic or losing any internal data?
- How would you build X for Y in a hypothetical product scenario?
- Solve this Python palindrome-style coding question.
- How do you define quality in an ML context?
- How do you give hard feedback to a low performer without losing their motivation?
- Can you walk me through your engineering manager experience, what you have managed, and your leadership style?
- Design a key-value store.
- Write a Go function to maintain a string as bytes.
- How would you design the new storage system, especially the partitioning, as volume grows from millions of records to hundreds of millions or billions?
- How would you improve Siri?
- Walk me through a machine learning project you've run end to end.
- How would you right-size sampling for auditing live traffic?
- How do you manage a project with hard deadlines if you expect it to slip?
- What would you do on a newly formed team if you did not have enough engineering resources?
- Tell me about yourself.
- Design a service that manages a set of Kubernetes clusters.
- How would you manage your team while working with very senior engineers and other stakeholders on a problem like this?
- Tell me about a time you built a product involving AI inference.
- If you needed to improve data quality on a product like Siri, how would you define the scope?
- Tell me about a time you failed.
- Do you have experience handling this kind of scale, with Apple-sized traffic and huge amounts of metrics data?
- How do you A/B test a new feature?
- Tell me about a time you had a disagreement.
- Design a storage system for large block data, where keys can be up to about 1K and values can be up to about 300K.
- Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a stakeholder.
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All 22 Apple interview experiences
“People are nice, questions are fair, but some questions might be niche. Had a hard time understanding the questions.”
“The interview was "Python Coding" so I prepared for Data Structures and Algorithms but I wasn't expecting this question.”
“The weirdest round was a principal engineer asking me to design an AI bot for ordering employee lunches. I went in expecting cloud infrastructure and Go, then suddenly I'm trying to talk through…”
“The weirdest part was the AI round. I was told to come ready to prompt whatever tool I wanted, but when I got there it basically turned into a loose system design interview about using AI agents for…”
“Overall interview process was frustrating, as the kind of offer you get doesn't solely depend on your performance, they stack rank a pool they are interviewing.”
“The wildest round was not system design. It was a cross-org interview with a cost management partner grilling me on how I would forecast host spend for an observability team, and I had not seen that…”
“My hiring manager came back as part of the final loop and literally asked me zero interview questions. The whole 30 minutes was just, what questions do you have for me, which made it feel more like…”
“The interview started with a resume discussion and a system design round. There wasn't enough time left to fully code the LeetCode problem and dry-run the test cases. The interviewer didn't even…”
“Hiring manager asked about AB testing and measurement and campaign through different channel, how to attribute.”
“It was a good interview overall, I was just not prepared for it. Because it was a researcher role, i was first ask an my experience doing AI/ML research then we moved on to the technical problem,…”
“The process was well organized and technically rigorous. Interviewers focused on problem-solving and practical imaging knowledge. What caught me off guard was the depth of questions on camera…”
“9 rounds of interviews total. The process was very long but relatively easy compare with other FAANG companies. Mostly focus on behavioral.”
“Timeline was smooth and interviewers were friendly. Turnaround was quick. and Communication was great”
“Hiring managers asked a lot of questions about Java internals, Java build system internals (Maven vs Gradle behaviors), networking internals (HTTP vs HTTP2)”
“Apple merged me into one interview loop for two different EPM openings in the same Siri org, and the hardest part was that two rounds were so ML-metrics-heavy that I honestly don't know how a random…”
“The most Apple question I got was basically how I would make Siri actually useful, and I ended up pitching an LLM wrapper around Shortcuts so Siri could build full automations from one plain-English…”
“The round was with the hiring manager, she asked me alot of questions on churn, profit and lifetime value, which was the focus of the team. Others were basic ML questions like bias variance…”
“Easy overall. A lot of situational questions for 30-45 minutes. 2 hiring managers interviewing you for final round.”
“the process is very smooth, everyone is very helpful and nice. the questions were straightforward and not too hard”
“Overall, the interview process was well-structured and professionally organized. It consisted of an initial phone screening, followed by a panel interview with the team lead and two senior members.”
“Friendly interviewers, open ended questions. Wanted to go through the full arc of gathering data, figuring out sensors and deisgning the ML model”
“I was not interested to proceed with futher interview rounds since I got promoted in my current role”
Frequently asked questions
How many rounds are in the Apple interview?
Candidates report a typical 3 rounds, usually including a recruiter screen, online assessment, phone screen, take-home assignment.
How hard is the Apple interview?
Candidates rate it 3.1/5 on average (medium), across 22 interviews.
How long does the Apple hiring process take?
About 4 weeks from first contact to decision, based on reported timelines.
What percentage of Apple candidates get an offer?
25% of candidates with a final result got an offer (4 of 16).
What does the Apple interview focus on?
The most common round types are Behavioral, Coding, System Design, Project Discussion.