I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Apr 2015
Interview
Recruiter cold call, then onsite interview for a day. The day had 3-4 interviews and one of the interviews was with a panel of developers where they interviewed together.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The recruiter cold call asked some questions like, what is NTP, then the onsite interview asked me to write some scripts for file operations, and then explain how TCP works.
Around 2 months after I submitted my resume for Apple software engineer position, I got a call from the hiring manager. He asked me what was the good day for the interview. It took half day for meeting 5 people. It was long hour interview for me. Each interviewer spent ~ 30 minutes and asked ~ 4 questions. Each interviewer asked questions in the different areas.
6 rounds. 1 Technical Screening. Then onsite loop consisted of 4 rounds of behavioral, 2 technicals, and 1 sys design. Had an additional Hiring Manager round since I was borderline.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LC Mediums and mentorship based behavioral questions.
6 rounds. Started with phone screen with HM about past projects.
Onsite rounds
1: OOD
2. Multi threading
3. Java design pattern and Immutable classes
4. HM
All the rounds were heavily focused on Java