I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Herzliya) in Jul 2024
Interview
I’m currently in the middle of the interview process with Apple—I've completed 4 out of 6 interviews so far. The process has been a mix of personal and technical evaluations. In some of the sessions, I was asked to talk about myself and share details about past projects I’ve worked on. There were also some coding rounds with easy to medium-level problems, as well as thought-provoking questions that focused on system design and algorithms—for example, one round involved brainstorming how the algorithm for Bluetooth device detection should work. It's been a really engaging and well-rounded experience so far.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
parse a text file, see how i open a file, reed it and close it
quite a lot of computer architecture questions for example cache, mmu, operating system coding is relatively easy, mainly in c/c++, a lot of question regarding to ethernet, 802.3 the protocol the networking processor etc.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Dec 2024
Interview
Had a quick phone screen where the recruiter asked a few questions from my resume. Then it was followed by an online interview with a software engineer from the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interviewer grilled me on random questions from my resume. Then they presented me with creating a linked list circular queue in C question.
Validation Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Validation Engineer roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 12 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 Validation Engineer according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
Presentation: 23%
Group panel interview: 15%
Phone interview: 15%
Other: 8%
Skills test: 8%
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