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Apple Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Dec 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Apple interview process started with an OA on HackerRank that felt very targeted and not like a generic LeetCode set.

I had two questions to complete within 50 minutes.

One prompt was “Save the Plants,” where the goal was to match fertilizer bags to plants. The other problem involved balancing a gift-box using doubling and halving operations, which pushed me to think in terms of operations and transformations rather than straightforward brute force.

The overall experience made it clear that the questions were designed to be concrete and application-like. I didn’t end up with a final offer from this path, but I came away with the sense that Apple cared about how I reason through the mechanics of a specific

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