Operations Specialist applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 65% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Operations Specialist roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 22 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 Operations Specialist according to 22 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 26%
One on one interview: 22%
Drug test: 11%
Phone interview: 11%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Personality test: 4%
Skills test: 4%
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Apple (Miami, FL) in Jul 2014
Interview
Very straight forward interview with the department leader regarding work experience and interest for working at apple. Second interview is with store manager further probing you on work experience and familiarity with products and services. They prefer to hire type A extroverted personality types since it helps foster a strong company culture.
Behavioral questions, tell me about yourself, and a pretty casual conversation. never technical questions. first as fwe with 2 group interview rounds, applied for ops permanent part time and it was 2 1-1 interviews, one with the ops lead manager then store manager in person
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you handle inventory and if there's any discrepancy or something missing, what do you do?
Three interviews, basic introduction about yourself, and scenario based question, and how you would handle conflict as well and team building, pretty standard in my opinion, anyone can do it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself, as well as if you ever had a conflict with a coworker and how did you resolve it
Do PowerPoint slides before interview, during the interview present the slides and do self introduction about yourself, it takes around 1h for the session. There were two interviewers, the interview was conducted online.