Apple Software Engineer interview experience

It ran about an hour and started with building a structure keyed by an Enum with lists of strings, then adding more strings, and handling follow-ups like preventing duplicates. The later part of the work felt very collection-focused and practical, and I could tell the round was testing whether I truly knew my Java collections.

Another screen I did was also fairly grounded in language fundamentals, but in a different way. It was a 45-minute screen that mixed past experience with Python basics—things like the distinction between interpreted vs compiled behavior and how arrays vs lists vs