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United StatesOnsite2 months ago
Apple

Software Engineer Interview Experience

Apple·Senior / L5
Result
Waiting
Interview date
4 months ago
Timespan
2 weeks
Difficulty
Moderate

Interview process

Hiring managers asked a lot of questions about Java internals, Java build system internals (Maven vs Gradle behaviors), networking internals (HTTP vs HTTP2)

  • Phone interview
  • Technical interview

Interview tips

They focus almost primarily on the problems in this team domain. Mainly practical questions that map to the day-to-day work of the actual job.

Company culture

Intense, direct, and casual. And they all ask you, "Why Apple?"

Questions asked

Question types asked

Specific questions asked

You are given an N-ary tree. Find the level with the most number of nodes.

How do you implement a HashMap in Java? What underlying data structures do you use?

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