Difficult Interview – Overall Negative Experience – No – Mon, 4 Jul 2016
Interviewed Jun 2,016 in Dallas, TX (took 1 days)
35 people congregated at a store before retail hours. Everyone was seated together and waited on Apple employees to give some sort of presentation. After watching videos and talking about the company, presenters ask our thoughts on the videos. The whole thing is very elementary school as the most outgoing people fought for their chance to share their unimpressive, and uninteresting thoughts. Typical group interview flaws, only this time it is under the guise of building relationships and getting to know you.
After the huge group gathering, everyone is divided into smaller groups. In these groups one to two apple employees ask further questions that pry at your personality. The employees are very relatable and intentional and easily make the experience comfortable, but the way they go about it is not the most fair thing in the world. One question is asked to everyone, and as each person answers, the answers get better and better, because the last person has had the most time to evaluate their competition and construct the best answer. This advantage is seemingly taken away with the next round of questions that are randomly generated via iPad. This randomness does bring unique answers out of people, however some questions are harder than others.
Ultimately, Apple stresses that PEOPLE are their most valuable asset and that they care most about relationships. Unfortunately they have created a process that limits and prevents many valuable people from getting hired. While I am sure that resumes and cover letters are important to a degree, the most important thing is to be an aggressively outgoing person that is also lucky enough to be the last to answer randomly easy questions.
Interview Questions
Tell me about a time you had to sacrifice something important to you in order to help someone else.
Answer Question
Other Details
The interview consisted of Group/Panel Interview