Apple interview notes, page 19 of 38

“I jumped straight into token formats and OAuth flows before even asking what was wrong with the current system.” 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.

“This is a meaty question and I probably over-explained the encoder side before they even asked about skip connections.” 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.

“Knew this one cold so I jumped straight to backtracking with a visited set.” 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.

“Classic problem, I knew it, but I fumbled a bit on the in-place splicing part.” 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 fumbled this more than I expected.” 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 knew the answer because I'd drilled this one before, but I still fumbled explaining WHY a doubly linked list over a singly linked list.” 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.

“This question is basically five questions duct-taped together.” 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 picked something I thought was technically impressive but looking back it probably didn't land as a product story.” 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.

“My first instinct was just to map each character to its value and sum them up, which works for like half the cases.” 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.

“Blanked for a second because I kept wanting to name something with a screen.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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.