Difficulty
Average
Candidate-reported interview insights
Apple Hardware Engineer interviews, decoded.
Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences for the Hardware Engineer role at Apple.
4.1 rating Computer Hardware Development
Interview overview
Average rounds
3
Average duration
31.7 day average
Difficulty and candidate experience
Interview difficulty
easy5.7%
average55.7%
difficult38.6%
Candidate experience
negative10.1%
positive59.7%
neutral30.2%
Candidate-reported interview process
First step was a phone call with the recruiter, and after that was a video interview with the hiring manager. The hiring manager asked some basic design questions related to the role.
There were questions on FIFO, CDC, RDC, verilog code for arbiters and full understanding of resume. There were also some advanced questions on Finite State Machines. Besides these, they asked how to optimize the verilog code for power and area and all.
Design a sawtooth waveform generator given a square pulsed waveform and a constant current, and show how to derive an integrator circuit - Interviewer just went straight into how to generate a sawtooth waveform (generator), no behavioural questions at all, and it was really noisy so hard to concentrate
Interview question formats
Technical52.4%
Behavioral30%
Other7.6%
Coding4.8%
System Design3.1%
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Interview information is based on candidate reports and may not represent the current official hiring process of Apple.