Apple interview notes, page 15 of 38

“I started with the loss function and gradient descent which felt right, but then they pushed on convergence criteria and regularization and I got a bit fuzzy.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Apple, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The follow-up came right after I finished the first problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Apple, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I stared at this for a second because I genuinely wasn't sure if they meant a physical shipping port, a network port, or something else entirely.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Apple, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Rows and columns were fine, I had that part coded up pretty fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Apple, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The twist was the input format.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Apple, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Wide open prompt and I spent probably too long figuring out what scope they even wanted.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Apple, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“It was a coding question, that's about all I can say.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Apple, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Blanked for a second because it sounds so clean and simple.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Apple, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the class structure which was fine, Suit and Rank as enums, Card as a simple value object, Deck holding a list.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Apple, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight into the user flow and kind of forgot to frame the problem first.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Apple, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.