Apple Software Engineer interview experience

I presented a demo, and they followed up with questions about it. The topics were tied to context engineering and LLM inference evaluation.

What surprised me was how straightforward the whole thing felt technically and conceptually. They asked questions that were clear, and overall it didn’t feel like a trick interview. The pacing was focused on understanding my demo and how I approached the underlying ideas.

Difficulty felt difficult, but not in a chaotic way—more like the domain required real knowledge. I didn’t receive an offer, yet I walked away feeling the questions were legitimate and