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Apple Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Positive

Posted Dec 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For the UMC team, my onsite looked like a full, timed set of coding interviews rather than a lightweight screening.

I went through four separate one-hour coding interviews, each covering a different piece of implementation work. The questions included things like a Java inheritance puzzle, a meeting-rooms style book API problem, finding the median of two sorted arrays, and a MovieIterator. There was also an HTML/JS checkerboard, counting occurrences in a sorted array, grid path finding, and then reversing nodes in a k-group.

Once the coding rounds were done, the overall experience landed positively for me—I ended up receiving an offer. Looking back, I was surprised by how varied the prompts were within a

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