Apple interview notes, page 26 of 38

“The first part was fine, walked through hashing, collision handling, load factor.” 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 knew the clockwise version cold so I figured this was easy.” 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.

“Picked a project I thought was impressive but ended up spending too long on the backstory and not enough on the actual technical decisions.” 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.

“Classic product improvement question but Apple asking it about their own product adds a weird pressure.” 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 to go straight into functional tests, pairing, audio quality, that kind of thing.” 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 came out kind of rambling.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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.

“I jumped straight to the min-rooms part and almost forgot they also wanted the single-room boolean as a separate output.” 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 open-ended and I wasn't sure how narrow to go.” 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 started okay, wrote out the projections and the matmul, but fumbled a bit explaining why we divide by sqrt(d_k).” 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.

“The cost angle is a bit of a red herring and I almost fell into 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.