Mechanical Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Mechanical Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 52 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Apple overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Apple as a Mechanical Engineer according to 52 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 24%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 14%
Presentation: 14%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Apr 2011
Interview
The interview process was pretty rigorous - after an initial phone screen with the recruiter, there was another phone screen with the hiring manager followed by an out-of-office technical design challenge. The prompt was to design a feature into an existing part and build a presentation showing your process. After completing that design and sending it in, there was an in-person interview in Cupertino with the product team over the course of a morning. Interviewers came individually or in pairs and were generally asking technical questions, with more senior people coming later. Ended with the VP of the division.
After about 6 hours, the interviews stopped and I was told to wait for a decision. Heard back at 7pm that schedules had closed up and the next day of interviews was cancelled - there were some substantial fires which had come up during the day that needed to be put out.
For me, the whole experience was captured in the interview room (which is only accessible from the outside of the building). Interviewers were most interested in testing your technical knowledge in narrow subject areas and discovering your ability to expand within those areas. They were looking for a strong depth in a multitude of areas within a defined field. They were very up front about the team structure, anticipated job functions, and time commitment expectations. All were relatively impersonal, though the final interviewer was overly antagonistic; however, that seemed to stem from the situations developing outside the interview room. Every interviewer was far more interested in existing skill sets and technical knowledge than in enthusiasm or capacity to learn or grow. Overall, it was a neutral experience as it was not a good fit for either of us.
Disclaimer: the timing of my interview was tremendously poor for Apple, so I don't know how representative my experience within the interview room is.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me all the ways you could possible manufacture this part (shown in person).
Recruiter found me on LinkedIn. I got a first round interview over call. They asked me some basic questions on manufacturing processes, my experience, and what skills I honed over the years. Overall a friendly interviewer
t Fabrica Robotics (Singapore) are described as difficult, technical, and fast-paced, focusing on AI, robotics, embedded systems, and software engineering. The process often involves a pre-interview technical assessment, followed by a face-to-face interview with
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (San Diego, CA)
Interview
Multiple stage, project based. Phone call, virtual interviews, take home project, explain project, present project and design reasoning to group, 8 or so one-on-one video calls, each about 30 minutes to an hour
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Beam Deflection, manufacturing reasoning and ideas