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Apple Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first real step was a 45-minute CoderPad session, and it was exactly the kind of kernel-focused test I expected.

I was given three separate questions in C, all meant to be solved live: first, checking the machine’s endianness; then debugging a kernel module scenario that involved a deadlock plus a few other performance/optimization details; and finally a medium binary search problem.

I moved through all three, keeping the flow steady, but I could feel where the debugging and correctness details really mattered most. The module question took real concentration because the goal wasn’t just to get something compiling—it was to understand what was going wrong and walk through the fix with intention. By the

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