Apple

Size:

164000+ employees

Founded:

1976

Website:

https://www.apple.com

About:

Apple is a multinational technology company founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976. Its core businesses span consumer electronics (iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods), software platforms (iOS, macOS, watchOS), and services (Apple Music, iCloud, Apple TV+, the App Store). Apple is the world's most valuable company by market capitalization and designs its own silicon (Apple Silicon, A-series, M-series chips). The company is known for its tight integration of hardware, software, and services across its product ecosystem.

Apple Interview Questions

Recently asked in real interviews

Questions

150

tracked from real interviews

Difficulty

26 Easy 96 Med 28 Hard

Rounds

5–7

phone + onsite + team match

Interview Process

Recruiter Screen

Background, "why Apple", target team · 15–30 min

phone

Technical Phone Screen (1–2 rounds)

CoderPad coding + domain depth · 45–60 min each

coding

Onsite: Coding & Algorithms (×3)

DS&A problems, edge cases, complexity, language internals · 60 min each

coding

Onsite: System Design (ICT4+)

Architecture, scale, platform & device tradeoffs · 60 min

system-design

Hiring Manager & Team Match

Behavioral + multiple HMs (iOS, macOS, Cloud, Siri, Silicon) post-committee · 60 min

behavioral

Apple hires into specific teams, not a central pool. After committee, hiring managers from groups like iOS, macOS, Cloud, Siri, and Silicon Software run a separate team match before any offer. Pipeline runs ~1.5–2 months.

Topics Covered

Arrays & Hashing Strings Trees Graphs / BFS / DFS Dynamic Programming Linked Lists Two Pointers Recursion Sorting Memory Management Concurrency System Design iOS / Swift ML / Vision Behavioral

Recently Asked Questions

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Tell me about a time you disagreed with someone and how you resolved it.

behavioral Medium

Design a typeahead box for a search engine.

system-design Medium

Find the longest substring without repeating characters.

algorithmscoding Medium

Given the root of a binary tree of integers, return the maximum path sum.

algorithmscoding Medium

Why do you want to work at Apple?

behavioral Medium