Physical Design 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 68% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Physical Design Engineer roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 31 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 Physical Design Engineer according to 31 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
Presentation: 17%
One on one interview: 13%
Drug test: 11%
Skills test: 9%
Group panel interview: 7%
Background check: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Other: 2%
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Asked questions about these topics : Static timing analysis, SIGNAL INTEGRITY, BASICS OF LOGIC GATES, FLOOR PLANNING, rtl to gdsii flow. Overall, behavioral question, flow of design project i have done, low power techniques.
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Explain flow from RTL TO GDS11 in a design project i have done, how signal integrity affects the hold and setup times.
overall 7 interviews, one hour each.
in depth questions of setup/hold time, transistor/diode based circuit questions. some logical thinking questions.
intensive interview process they kept adding more interveiws,reached final interview and they moved on with other candidate.
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setup/hold in depth questions. in FF and latch with skew.
The interview is around 45-60 mins, a deep dive into my resume; the Interviewer is nice, provides guidance to the correct answers, I didn't get to the next round of the interview.
There were three rounds of interviews. I believe each was with a different person on the team. It was a broad range of technical, communication, and logical questions that they asked.