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Apple Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a pretty intense, multi-round setup—six separate interviews scheduled, and each one had two interviewers.

Before the questions even started, the process felt like it was designed to move fast and keep pressure on.

The topics themselves were very broad: I got asked fairly direct JavaScript concepts like hoisting, then shifted into “why this role,” plus Python basics and how it’s used day to day. One question that really stuck with me was a puzzle-style problem: I was given a scrambled alphabet in sorted order and had to figure out the original alphabet. Even where the questions weren’t coding-heavy in the moment, the expectation was that I could reason clearly under time constraints.

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