Apple Software Engineer interview experience

The hiring manager arrived about 15 minutes late and didn’t seem to acknowledge it. I walked through my background and highlighted a project, but the interviewer pushed back that the descriptions weren’t deep enough and asked for more substantial examples. That set a tense tone immediately.

Once we moved into coding, the tasks centered on matrix rotation. I solved a 90-degree clockwise and counterclockwise rotation quickly, but the momentum slipped when I was asked to rotate the matrix by any angle. We got into discussion about what the output should look like for non-integer angles, and the