Apple interview notes, page 29 of 38

“I jumped straight into the data model which was probably the wrong call.” 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 with the obvious stuff, CNNs, anchor boxes, two-stage vs single-stage detectors.” 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 Apple product question and I still fumbled the opening.” 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.

“I picked a sales funnel dashboard I'd built a while back, which in hindsight was probably too old to speak to confidently.” 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.

“I got the prefix sum approach pretty quickly and coded it up with a hash map to hit O(n).” 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.

“I knew the surface answer but fumbled a bit when they pushed on trade-offs.” 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.

“Classic binary search on the answer.” 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 knew the general shape of this: DOM, CSSOM, render tree, layout, paint.” 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 a preorder traversal using null markers for missing nodes, which worked, but I spent way too long debating BFS vs DFS in my head before committing.” 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 froze for a second because my first instinct was to think about the steel frame, but then I realized I had no idea how to anchor that number.” 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.