Recently rejected from Apple for Data Engineer Intern for Summer 2022 after going through the phone interview, absolutely gutted.

Applied on the Apple career website around September 2021. Got an email from the recruiter in March 2022 to schedule a 60-minute phone interview in the same week itself.

Phone Interview

• Interviewer was very friendly. Started with questions about my resume and the projects on which I worked.
• Explained the role and my tasks.
• Later moved on to the coding question on coderpad.
• Was asked a variation of Merge Intervals.
• Solved the problem in 15-20 minutes and was asked to run the code. The program ran correctly on the first attempt.
• Was asked to further optimize for space and time. Optimized, explained the reason and ran the code correctly.
• Finally asked if I had any questions.
• Overall the interviewer was impressed and said will hear back within a few days.

The following week got a rejection email from the recruiter.
Overall a great experience and the interviewer was very friendly but not sure what went wrong. The interview lasted approx 40 minutes.

Will recommend going through the LC tagged questions.

Good Luck!