Apple·Software Engineer

Apple Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

IrelandPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a hiring manager call to confirm mutual fit, followed by a coding screen.

After that, I went through several rounds of interviews with questions that ranged from medium to hard.

Scheduling felt messy early on: one interviewer joined about 20 minutes late and then the interview time got adjusted without really checking that I was okay with it. The session that was supposed to last an hour stretched to nearly two hours, with the interviewer asking random questions and giving suggestions that didn’t seem connected to the format they were supposedly running. By the time it ended, it was hard to tell whether I was being assessed on the intended criteria or just caught

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