The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Apple (Columbus, OH) in Jun 2010
Interview
I applied online for the Apple Store Leader program for recent college graduates. I was contacted by a recruiter and she spoke with me briefly about my interest in the program and to set up an informational meeting. I went to the meeting at a local hotel in the Columbus, OH area.
I walk into the place and the woman that greets me acts like I'm not suppose to be there. She gives me a confused look as I tell her my name. The demographics of the interviewees are mostly young, white, and hip. There was about 16 of us in the meeting. It was very awkward with the initial meet and greet. Everyone is talking about their lives and interests which seem very fake.
We all walk into another room and they play music as we walk in. A very cheery atmosphere, albeit fake. The informational meeting consisted on meeting with the local managers of Apple Stores in the region, watching a movie about the background of Apple, and we all had to introduce ourselves.
Then, we had to tell way we want to work for Apple and you basically have to suck up to them. Always say how much you love their products.
The managers had us to do a group project which consisted of different topics center around the new IPad. The idea was that we had to find an impressive way to sell this product to the masses as if it was going to be hard sell Apple products (sarcasm). Then, we presented our new idea to everyone.
After this was done, we were all told that we would be contacted at the end of the day if we were accepted to a second interview.
I wasn't chosen but I'm very sure that I didn't suck up enough to Apple and I wasn't their stereotypical type of people who work in the Apple Store. I mean just go into your local Apple store and see what type of people work there. If you feel out of place, then you don't stand a chance to work for them!
It was very long. 8 interviews in total before I was told that I was too senior for the role. The recruiter was amazing, and was very into communicating with me until I was no longer in the running for the role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How you provide feedback to an employee who has been there for a long time.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (São Paulo, São Paulo)
Interview
Primeiro que a Apple demora muito pra te chamar pra trabalhar, o motivo nunca iremos saber infelizmente, o RH me deixou insatisfatório, esperava mais bem mais...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 -Por quê você quer trabalhar na Apple ?
2 -Por quê devemos te contratar ?
I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Apple in May 2018
Interview
I put in a relatively short application on their website around late March. Answered a few questions, attached my resume, and I think my transcript.
I'm fairly sure there wasn't a time frame on when they'd get back to me. I knew they'd email if I was selected to advance and that the position starts in September this year. I actually assumed that I just wasn't selected after a while.
However, I got an email from an Apple recruiting rep around the 20th of May. Asking what I assume the short phone call used to be for. Clarifying my availability, rights to work, any time off requests for the next 12 months, preferred location, if I'd previously worked at or been interviewed by Apple, and confirming my university, degree and graduation date. My one suggestion for this is specify when your final exams/results are due. My actual graduation ceremony is going to be in October (after September), but my final exams and results will be out in June (before September). After clarifying that I was straight onto the phone interviews. I had to RSVP and choose a time online for that or the next week.
or next week.
The interviews were for 30 minutes (mine went a little over). I thought it went quite well - it was a one on one interview with the same recruitment rep who I'd been emailing. She asked pretty standard interview questions - how have you overcome challenges at work, customer service experience, why you want to work for Apple, management experience etc. The only other thing was asking what Apple products I had.
My interview was on the Thursday and I was told that I'd hear by the end of next week whether I was successful or not. The rep called me the next Thursday with news that I'd made it to the final interviews/group interviews.
I'm yet to attend (it's later this month), but they're actually flying me down and paying for the expenses like my accommodation. The RSVP for the day only gave one choice with 5 spots. I'm not sure yet if that means that it's down to 5 people in my nominated city or they've just chosen the day for each of us and we can accept or decline.
The actual process from the first email from them until being notified of getting to the final stage has taken under 3 weeks. Since I put the application in, it's more like 2 and a half months. Compared to other graduate programs I've applied to - this process was much easier considering there were no aptitude or personality tests.
Found the other information here pretty helpful for the process so I figured I'd contribute one since there's few Australian contributions. I'll try to remember to update this with how the final stage goes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing asked was particularly difficult or totally unexpected. There were no technical questions, and the only thing I'd suggest checking you know is your GPA and specifics about when you can potentially give notice to work.
**I'll try to remember to update after the final stage.