Apple interview notes, page 25 of 38

“Three questions bundled into one and I kind of tripped over myself trying to answer them in order.” 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.

“This was basically the entire interview.” 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.

“Classic BFS setup.” 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 has a lot of surface area and I didn't pace myself well.” 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 started talking about Slack messages and standups and the interviewer kind of waited for more.” The rest of the author's notes on Software 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.

“You need a hash map plus a doubly linked list working together.” 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 BFS part clicked pretty fast for me, the part I had to think through was how to assign column indices cleanly.” 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.

“Talked through decoupling producers and consumers, handling traffic spikes, async processing.” 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 rambled a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Apple, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I picked a pipeline reliability issue I dealt with a while back.” The rest of the author's notes on Software 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.