- Education: Bachelor's in CS
- Years of Experience: 2
- Prior Experience: Small/Medium-size company in Bay Area (joined right after graduation)
- Date of the Offer: September 2019
- Company: Apple
- Title/Level: ICT3 (SWE)
- Location: Cupertino
- Salary: $155k
- Relocation/Signing Bonus: $50k (no relocation as it's not needed)
- Stock bonus: $150k / 4 yrs
- Bonus: 10% target ($15.5k) and can expect 50% base as stock refresher (over 4 years)
- Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): $208k without refreshers
- Benefits: Standard Apple
- 12 days PTO, 12 sick days, 2 weeks of shutdown for Thanksgiving and Christmas + 5 holidays
- 25% off 1 product of each line (iPhone, iPad, MacBook, etc) per year, otherwise 15% off Apple hardware
- $500 off a single Apple product every 3 years
- subsidized lunches (not free, but cheap and very good quality)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan--able to buy AAPL stock at 15% off the price of a certain date with up to 10% of base salary
- Other details: Initially had Amazon SDE II offer and told Apple recruiter. Then counter-offered on base salary once.
P.S. Can't share interview experience as it was very team/domain/expertise-focused. It might reveal me and it wouldn't help most people anyways.