While every tech company asks programmers technical questions to see if they're fit for a job, Apple makes a point to follow up each response with "but how would you optimize that/make it better?" And then there are the questions that really throw you off.
"Tell me something that you have done in your life which you are particularly proud of."
"What are you failures, and how have you learned from them?"
"Describe an interesting problem and how you solved it."
"Explain to a 8 year old what a modem/router is and it's functions.
"What brings you here today?"
"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."
"What would you want to do 5 years from now?"
"Why do you want to join Apple and what will you miss at your current work if Apple hired you."
"Describe yourself, what excites you?"
"How would you test a toaster?"
"If we hired you, what do you want to work on?"
"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?"
"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."
"Why should we hire you?"
"Are you creative? What's something creative that you can think of?"
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