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Apple Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through what felt like the full ICT3-style panel: multiple rounds with both coding and system design, plus hiring manager evaluations.

The loop included two coding rounds, one system design round, and two additional hiring manager conversations.

The system design round was framed around a broken system that monitored users’ online activity. I had to walk through short- and long-term fixes, and the discussion went deep into troubleshooting down to memory management and heap dumps. The technical screen and the rest of the panel also emphasized debugging and low-level thinking in the context of a broader system. Overall it felt like the loop was deliberately testing whether I could treat system design as troubleshooting, not

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