Apple Senior Site Reliability Engineer interview questions
based on 4 ratings - Updated May 17, 2026
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Senior Site Reliability 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 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Site Reliability Engineer roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Apple overall takes an average of 29 days.
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hr phone calls, then followed up with a first screening technical interview. Didn't get through this stag, specific reason for rejection wasn't disclosed to me. The process i went through was roughly around three weeks from the date i applied.
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Question 1
Started from basics and went very deep into reliability related experiences
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Apple (Pittsburgh, PA) in Feb 2025
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I was contacted directly by the recruiter based on my resume for an interview with the SRe team. The job description was vague and did not entail what skillset was actually needed on the job. When asked the recruiter about what will be asked in the interview I was a told that it will be a technical round with coding in java/python and a copy paste of the qualifications mentioned on the job description. The technical questions were of average difficulty but the coding question was not leetcode it was simple scripting which if communicated by the recruited I would have prepared for.
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Question 1
what happens when you type in www.apple.com in your browser
write a command to fetch all the files in a directory starting with a particular substring and output the number of lines in each file
eg.
directory /home/userA
file names starting with: logs_
output expected:
logs_1 101
logs_2 10
logs_3 155
...
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (London, England) in Oct 2020
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Good quality interviewers, good process. Few technical rounds after initial recruiter screening. Nothing out of the ordinary, except the interviewers were very good at soft skills and calming down the candidate. This was 2020 so your mileage may vary on more recent interviews.