Q&A (Feel free to ask me any questions)

• Current position: SWE at a medium company (100k TC)
• Background: MSCS + 1 Year of experience
• How did I prepare? I read these books and do leetcode (mainly) about 400 questions.
  • Cracking The Coding Interview
  • Elements of Programming Interviews
  • Programming Interviews Exposed
• Did you get the offer?
  • Yes. It took about 2.5 weeks. 160k base | 180k stock (4 years) | 25k Signon bonus
• How did I get the interview?
  • A recruiter DM me on Linkedin.

Take home assignment (write the code and send them via e-mail. Doesn't need to be optimal solution but readable)

• https://leetcode.com/problems/knight-probability-in-chessboard/

Phone screen (1 hr)

• Walk through the take home assignment
• Why Apple? What's your favorite product?
• Difference and when to use Array vs Linkedlist?
• What do Apple's products use Linkedlist?
• https://leetcode.com/problems/word-ladder/

On-Site: 4 rounds + 1 lunch (Amazing cafeteria but NOT FREE FOODS (manager paid for it tho) - salmon was great!)
Round 1: (1 hr)

• Tell me about yourself. What's your favorite project?
• https://leetcode.com/problems/3sum/
• https://leetcode.com/problems/n-queens/

Round 2: (1 hr)

• Tell me about yourself. Walk through resume
• https://leetcode.com/problems/set-matrix-zeroes/
• https://leetcode.com/problems/validate-binary-search-tree/

Round 3: (1 hr)

• Intro.
• https://leetcode.com/problems/lfu-cache/
• I was given an UML class diagram. Asked me to re-organize (missing PK, FK, etc) and scale it.

Round 4: (1 hr)

• Why Apple? What new features would you implement into Siri?
• Design a shorten URL service
• Scale it