J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Apple (Sunnyvale, CA) en sept. 2016
Entretien
The recruiter for this position did a horrendous job. I'm a software developer and this guy contacts me by telling me about SRE position. I was actually looking for jobs and thought interview at Apple was a good chance. However , what he failed to tell me was that they are looking for people with SRE experience, which I clearly don't have. Long story short, I get a technical phone screen which I cleared easily. They get me onsite. This is where the fun starts. The hiring manager directly asks me, "We are looking for a person with experience in SRE, why are you even here? Who did your phone screen?" I mean, really!!!. I really got annoyed. I finish my day long interviews(which ironically went well in my opinion ). The manager gives me his email ID and so does one more interviewer(and I thought it was a good sign). The recruiter (who by the way is very unresponsive and behaves as if he is the hiring manager) emails me asking me to fill 2-3 pages long questionnaire (which is a waste of time, given that they are going to reject me anyways), so I hoped that a positive result would come. 1 week later, I was browsing through jobs in Linkedin and guess what, I saw the exact same job posting (posted a day ago). This really pissed me off and I sent a mail to the recruiter, who then sent a template email of rejection immediately.If they already had the result, don't they have the courtesy to inform it to me after wasting weeks of my time? I wasted 3 weeks of my life on this useless job. Never going to apply to Apple again for the way they treated me.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Linux, networking (sys admin ) and troubleshooting.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Apple
Entretien
Beware of fake interviews
I was interviewing for a position that I was told was the last headcount for the team. The process was quite long, involving six rounds of onsite interviews. The interviewers seemed a bit unprepared, and the conversations felt more like they were going through the motions rather than genuinely assessing my skills for an open role.
After about a month, I was rejected without any specific feedback. Shortly after, the same recruiter started reaching out to me about other job openings I had not applied for. This made me feel like the initial interview process may have been for a position that was already filled, and my candidacy was used to "pump up the numbers."
I've heard from others that this can be a pattern. If you notice signs like unnecessary interview rounds, repetitive questions, a position being described as the "last headcount," or unprepared interviewers, it's a strong sign the position has already been filled. It might be time to move on to other opportunities.
Questions d'entretien [3]
Question 1
You are given a machine where you have shell access, but the PID limit is exhausted. You need to figure out the root cause using shell builtins
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Apple (Singapour)
Entretien
After sending in the application, I received an email to schedule a call with a developer from the US. Pretty standard Leetcode questions on efficiency and understanding basic logic. The interview included a live coding session and ended pretty quickly.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
You have a file with N lines. How do you output them equally into M buckets?
J'ai passé un entretien chez Apple (Cupertino, CA)
Entretien
HR screen
Hiring manager
Coding screening
Virtual interview loop
1. System Design focus on K8s
2. System Design - Reliability and availability
3. Coding- Leet code Medium
4. System Design - Network stack, Linux