Design Verification Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Apple with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 64% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Design Verification Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 71 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 Design Verification Engineer according to 71 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 11%
Personality test: 5%
Group panel interview: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Background check: 3%
Other: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Apple (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jun 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out and had a normal call. Then scheduled a 45 min screening with hiring manager. The screening call with HM was a horror show. Completely uninterested, was eating his dinner while on call, asked one question, no follow up, no background nothing and left 20 minutes early. btw, he showed up late as well.
There were 1 screening and 6 panel rounds and it was difficult especially UVM part also they AMBA protocols basic design questions like fsm fifo and all and more focus on constraints
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
UVM based questions and Assertions and constraints
I applied online. I interviewed at Apple (Sunnyvale, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
I had a screening round that started directly without any introduction. I was asked questions about my resume, mainly about my projects. After that, I was given a coding question.
first asking about the tool experience, asking about UVM knowledge like how and when to connect the sequencer and driver and what is their handshake , how do you deal with CDC problems, how to do the STA analysis, then final having a coding question
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
implementation of driver class based on the figure they gave