Apple·Software Engineer

Apple Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Cupertino, CAPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop felt fairly smooth on the surface: I went through three interviews, with one behavioral and two technical rounds.

The technical parts leaned heavily into system design and debugging, and the interviewers stayed friendly and followed a pretty standard flow—introductions first, then mostly technical questioning. I also ran into a need to cover some OOP concepts while explaining my approach.

The hardest part was still the coding and algorithmic pressure. In one of the technical sessions, I worked on a graph traversal problem at about a medium LeetCode level, and then I had to continue with a hard follow-up on the traversal. I was expected to finish both within roughly an hour, so the pace was intense. Even

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