Apple interview notes, page 24 of 38

“They tied this directly to my project background so I knew it was coming in some form.” 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'd seen this before so the cycle detection angle clicked 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 large timestamp constraint is the whole point of the problem.” 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.

“This one took me a minute to even process.” 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.

“The blocking condition is what tripped me up first.” 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 had a story ready but it felt a bit thin in the moment.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Apple, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Knew this one cold from practice but still fumbled the explanation a bit.” 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 took me a second to orient to because I kept wanting to jump straight into equations.” 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.

“Started fine, got the basic setTimeout and clearTimeout skeleton down pretty quick.” The rest of the author's notes on Frontend 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 implementation and got the basic wiring done fine: embed the corpus, embed the query, run pairwise similarity, return the top match.” 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.