Apple interview notes, page 18 of 38

“I started with revenue and units sold and immediately felt the interviewer cooling off.” 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.

“I started with engineering headcount and then kind of spiraled into infrastructure costs, licensing for map data, QA cycles.” 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.

“The getRandom part is what makes this tricky.” 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.

“Pretty straightforward warm-up.” 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.

“Led with the brand appeal, which, looking back, was a mistake.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Apple, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The metrics part was fine, I can do confusion matrix math in my sleep.” 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.

“Union-Find is the clean solution here and I knew that going in, but I second-guessed myself halfway through and started rambling about DFS instead.” 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've done this problem before so I wasn't totally lost, but I fumbled explaining the subtractive case logic out loud.” 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.

“Straightforward definition question but I overcomplicated it.” 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.

“I knew random forests reasonably well going in but this question is basically five separate hard questions stapled together.” 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.