Hardware Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 92% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Hardware Intern roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 13 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 Hardware Intern according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
Skills test: 25%
One on one interview: 20%
Presentation: 10%
Background check: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
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Relaxed phone call for the screening interview - went over availability, projects the team works on, etc. The interviewer slipped in minor technical questions as I went over my experience, and saved a few for the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you go about picking pullup resistors for an I2C bus?
4 rounds of leetcode easy questions, some VLSI questions, and questions on the Virtuoso platform. Some of the questions were curated by the interviewer (no leetcode could prep you, but if you knew how to code straightforward enough)
1. Asked about my educational background and projects.
2. A couple HDL programming problems such as state machine, d_latch, and basic computer architecture questions.
3. Embedded system basics like I2C, SPI.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Apple
Interview
The recruiter contacted me and then I had a meeting with the head of the team. He asked general questions in my field. Next round I had three more technical interviews. They were challenging and the goal was figuring out how deep I know the field.