Apple Hardware Test / Validation Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
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Apple
Design Verification Engineer
Entry Average Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Coding
first they were asking about the tool experience, asking about UVM knowledge like how and when to connect the sequencer and driver and what is their handshake, how you deal with CDC problems, how to do the STA analysis, then finally having a coding question
Confirmed questions5 questions
- asking about your experience with the tools
- asking about UVM knowledge like when and how to connect the sequencer and driver and what is the handshake between them
- how you handle CDC problems
Apple
Validation Engineer
Mid Average Positive experience No offer 6 rounds About 2 weeks
Interview process
Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding System Design
I’m in the middle of the interview process with Apple—so far I’ve done 4 out of 6 interviews. The process has been a mix of personal and technical evaluations. In some interviews, they asked me to talk about myself and go over past projects I’ve worked on. There were also coding rounds with easy to medium-level problems, plus thought-provoking questions about system design and algorithms—for example, one round was about brainstorming how the algorithm for Bluetooth device detection should work. Overall it’s been a really engaging and well-rounded experience so far.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- parse a text file, show how i open a file, read it and then close it
- brainstorm how you would design the algorithm for detecting Bluetooth devices
Apple
Verification Engineer
Intern Easy Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical
I got a call from HR telling me about this job. I got an interview 2 days later on december 24. In the interview that lasted an hour, the inteviewer explained about the role and asked me some technical questions. I think the purpose of this inteview is to see how i think, and to show the rule. They didnt call me back.
Confirmed questions1 question
- We could generate inputs randomly by flipping a coin, why we don’t do that?
Apple Hardware Test / Validation Engineer Interview Questions
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“write a single line in python to calculate the square of the numbers in an array”
Read reports →“write the 7-boom game in pseudo code. print numbers from 1 to infinity, and if a number has the digit 7 in it or is divisible by 7 you should print "BOOM" instead.”
Read reports →“On a Unix shell, how would you list all files bigger than x Mb in size?”
Read reports →“Write a program for counting how many ones are in a 32 bit number”
Read reports →“Build an array with all numbers from 0 to Size - 1 in random order, with no duplicates.”
Read report →“write a constraint so that a 32-bit address is word aligned and has 1kb length”
Read report →“Design a finite state machine with a binary input sequence that accepts only numbers that are divisible by 5”
Read report →“Write a function that returns a shuffled array containing all integers from 1 to 100, with every integer appearing exactly once.”
Read report →“Design a circuit board that gets an 8-bit bus, and outputs an 8-bit bus where only the first net that is '1' in the input is '1' in the output and all others are '0' (basically "find the first '1' in the input bus).”
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