I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple in Oct 2023
Interview
First round was one-on-one with hiring manager, mostly behavioral with one technical question. Second round was a 6 x 45 mins mostly technical with a mix of hardware and software questions. Mixed enthusiasm from interviewers.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Draw a NAND and NOR gate using nfet and pfet. Which is faster?
There were Three Rounds of interviews.
Last round was 8 hours.
Technical questions mostly. No behavioral questions asked from HR or engineers. Overall great experience. You get interviewed by people from other teams that will be interacting with the team you will be joining as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions went all the way from Physical Design to Computer Architecture. Only one of the interviews had a design question. “How would you implement a phone database” or something similar.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Aug 2024
Interview
Quick phone call with tech recruiter. Two weeks later it was five back-to-back 60min technical interviews. Mixture of leetcode, broad architecture questions and granular technical questions about various pipelining techniques
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What factors do we consider when looking to determining CPU Pipeline through put.