APPLE is known for being one of the most challenging and exciting places to work, so it’s not surprising to learn that getting a job there is no easy task. Like Google and other big tech companies, Apple asks both technical questions based on your past work experience and some mind-boggling puzzles. Indiatimes
While some of these are tricky math problems, others are simple but vague enough to keep you on your toes.
So, here’s over to some of the toughest interview questions that candidates have been asked based on posts on job website Glassdoor.
1. Profile: Software engineer
Question: If you have 2 eggs, and you want to figure out what’s the highest floor from which you can drop the egg without breaking it, how would you do it? What’s the optimal solution?
2. Profile: Family room specialist
Question: Who is your best friend?”
3. Profile: Software engineer
Question: Describe an interesting problem and how you solved it.
4. Profile: Apple at-home advisor
Question: Explain to an 8 year old what a modem/router is and its functions.
5. Profile: Global supply manager
Question: How many children are born every day?
6. Profile: Software engineer
Question: You have a 100 coins laying flat on a table, each with a head side and a tail side. 10 of them are heads up, 90 are tails up.You can’t feel, see or in any other way find out which side is up. Split the coins into two piles such that there are the same number of heads in each pile.
7. Profile: Software engineer
Question: Describe yourself, what excites you?
8. Profile: Senior software engineer
Question: If we hired you, what do you want to work on?
9. Profile: Software QA engineer
Question: There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?
10. Profile: Specialist
Question: Scenario: You’re dealing with an angry customer who was waiting for help for the past 20 minutes and is causing a commotion. She claims that she’ll just walk over to Best Buy or the Microsoft Store to get the computer she wants. Resolve this issue.
11. Profile: Global supply manager
Question: How would you breakdown the cost of this pen?
12. Profile: Apple Care at-home consultant
Question: A man calls in and has an older computer that is essentially a brick. What do you do?
13. Profile: Build engineer
Question: Are you smart?
14. Profile: Software manager
Question: What are your failures, and how have you learned from them?
15. Profile: Software engineer
Question: Have you ever disagreed with a manager’s decision, and how did you approach the disagreement? Give a specific example and explain how you rectified this disagreement, what the final outcome was, and how that individual would describe you today.
16. Profile: Mechanical engineer
Question: You put a glass of water on a record turntable and begin slowly increasing the speed. What happens first — does the glass slide off, tip over, or does the water splash out?
17. Profile: Software engineering manager
Question: Tell me something that you have done in your life which you are particularly proud of.
18. Profile: Senior software engineer
Question: Why should we hire you?
19. Profile: Software engineer
Question: Are you creative? What’s something creative that you can think of?
20. Profile: Apple retail specialist
Question: Describe a humbling experience.
21. Profile: Apple at-home advisor
Question: What’s more important, fixing the customer’s problem or creating a good customer experience?”
22. Profile: Specialist
Question: Why did Apple change its name from Apple Computers Incorporated to Apple Inc?
23. Profile: Family room specialist
Question: You seem pretty positive, what types of things bring you down?
24. Profile: College at-home advisor
Question: Show me (role play) how you would show a customer you’re willing to help them by only using your voice.
25. Profile: Software engineer
Question: What brings you here today?
26. Profile: Software engineer
Question: Given an iTunes type of app that pulls down lots of images that get stale over time, what strategy would you use to flush disused images over time?
27. Profile: Lead analys
Question: If you’re given a jar with a mix of fair and unfair coins, and you pull one out and flip it 3 times, and get the specific sequence heads heads tails, what are the chances that you pulled out a fair or an unfair coin?
28. Profile: Engineering project manager
Question: What was your best day in the last 4 years? What was your worst?
29. Profile: Specialis
Question: When you walk in the Apple Store as a customer, what do you notice about the store/how do you feel when you first walk in?
30. Profile: Software engineer
Question: Why do you want to join Apple and what will you miss at your current work if Apple hired you?”
31. Profile: Software QA engineer
Question: How would you test your favorite app?
32. Profile: Software engineer
Question: What would you want to do 5 years from now?”
33. Profile: Software QA engineer
Question: How would you test a toaster?