Apple·Software Engineer

Apple Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Posted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed across two CoreOS teams and ended up spending a lot of time in technical rounds—around eight per team.

The questions didn’t feel LeetCode-heavy at all. They focused more on concurrency, C language concepts, debugging, and low-level design. It felt like the teams could run interviews in parallel without a cooldown, which made the timeline feel dense.

By the time it ended, I wasn’t selected, but the experience was clear in what it was testing: systems thinking, low-level reasoning, and comfort with debugging rather than memorized algorithm patterns.

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