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Automation QA Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.

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based on 9 ratings - Updated Apr 10, 2025

Average interview difficulty

Very positive interview experience

How others got an interview

50%
Applied online
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33%
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17%
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9 interviews

QA Automation Engineer Interview

Apr 17, 2023

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Apple (Haifa) in Jun 2021

Interview

Called me before to do an interview and they scheduled first a phone interview to make sure I was right for the part and then they scheduled a zoom interview with me and two other interviewers

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

they asked to implement a system that has HW and system of tests and I was asked to run each test on a random appliance and then that each test should run on a randomly selected appliance and it will not be chosen more than one time

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QA Automation Engineer Interview

Mar 25, 2022

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apple in Feb 2022

Interview

The first round was a technical 30min phone interview with a manager. The second round was a 45min coding session with two engineers. There was no screening by an HR person.

Interview questions [3]

Question 1

Phone question: How would you test a human detection system?

1 Answer

Question 2

Phone question: How would you test a semaphore?

1 Answer

Question 3

Coding challenge: Given a list of anagrams how would you group them?

1 Answer

QA Automation Engineer Interview

Sep 21, 2017

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Sep 2017

Interview

First I had a phone screening, then a technical interview using a coding web site - needed to solve two coding exercises, then I had an on-site interview - 4 sessions with two engineers per session.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

1. How would I test a new drag-n-drop feature 2. I was given an iPad and asked to explain my general test automation strategy, then select one particular area, write test cases, a test class and a code 3. How would I test the entire API

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