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Apple Software Engineer interview experience

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I went into Apple with a pretty clear sense that I’d be doing a lot of rounds, but the structure was still intense: six separate interviews, each about 45 minutes.

Early on, I had a slightly junior engineer who dug into a project deep dive with no coding portion at all, and the conversation ran long enough that it felt like the interview was mostly about how I framed my work.

As the loop continued, the rounds became more technical in different ways. One senior engineer followed up on my resume, then gave me a permutation coding problem that felt easy. Another senior interview blended machine learning fundamentals with a hands-on coding task to write an image filter, and later a level 5 engineer also combined project talk with a coding exercise that

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