It was a bit of a lengthy process comprising LinkedIn messages, emails, a phone interview, a development homework assignment, an invitation for an on-site, the on-site interview itself, and a final decision. All told, it was about a 7-week process. The phone interview was only 30 minutes and was mostly about me as a person and how I prefer to work. The homework assignment was fairly simple – but a little gotchya here, they used it as fodder for my first on-site interview session, expecting me to have all that 2-week-old information at the forefront of my mind. The on-site interviews were all pretty great, though – everyone was very nice, helpful, friendly, etc. No big gotchya questions or pointless tidbits like trivia, etc. A bit of whiteboard coding (my first experience with this) but it didn’t matter what language you decided to write in (or even pseudo-language) or if you made syntax errors in that process – it was all about the “why?” behind the code you were writing. On-site was 6 separate interview sessions involving 8 people and was spread out over 5.5 hours with a break for lunch. They got back to me within a week of the on-site interview.

I received the first interview email where it was specified I will have to discuss the role and my experience and I won't be expected to code. But the interview was a full on technical one. Even if it was easy and related to my experience it wasn't what I was expecting from an Apple recruitment. It was like being interviewed from a startup, random questions about technologies used.