I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple in May 2024
Interview
Initial recruiter call, then 1 hour technical screen(this went well), so got virtual onsite of 4 rounds. Out of 4 rounds, first one is coding+technical questions(around java/spring boot), second one(LLD), third one(HLD), fourth one(Product thinking round).
All interviewers were good, except for the one in the second virtual round who asked LLD, he was unsatisfied with my LLD, which is totally fine, he could have just sent a feedback but instead yelled and made a comment that my design was brutal, never heard these kind of words during interview.
The recruiter was super interactive up until virtual onsite interview but din't even turn into giving atleast a rejection mail even after a followup.
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