Apple interview notes, page 20 of 38

“Classic trie problem but the ranking twist is where it gets interesting.” 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 jumped straight into the recursive version and it felt clean.” 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 got the greedy intuition pretty fast: always pick the highest-profit available project.” 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 went with k-means++ initialization because I figured random init would invite a follow-up about why I didn't.” 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.

“I started with the naive nested loop approach, which is fine, but I spent too long on the boundary padding discussion before writing any code.” 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.

“This was the main question and it ate up most of the session.” 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 knew it was Tower of Hanoi the second they said 'disks and pegs' so that part was fine.” 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.

“Tripped up on the negative number case for longer than I'd like to admit.” 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 was the first real round and it set the tone.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Apple, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I fumbled this a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software 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.