Apple Front-End Interview Experience

Interview Experience
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For a frontend position in Canada, there are a few rounds of interviews.

  1. The first round is a 30-minute chat covering typical behavioral questions.
  2. The second round includes CS fundamental questions such as explaining what a hashmap is, differences in data structures, and recursion.
  3. The third round involves coding. The first half consists of a code review in vanilla JavaScript with some DOM API. The latter part requires creating a pop-up window with a bunch of images to be loaded via an API using React on CoderPad. This part was challenging as all HTML, JS, and CSS were in a single file, making it hard to focus on writing React.
  4. In the final round, the task is to design a fire alarm system, considering various scenarios like a malfunctioning alarm or intentional false alarms.

Overall, the process felt difficult, possibly due to lack of experience. It’s noted that each team at Apple has different interview formats, making preparation challenging.