Very Difficult Interview – Overall Negative Experience – No – Wed, 29 Mar 2017
Interviewed Mar 2,017 in Raleigh, NC (took 26 days)
They contacted me from linked in. Starts with brief talk with recruiter about what your careers goals are and really checking your skills and work history but no technical questions.
They then set up a technical phone interview. Series of trick questions about objective c and swift. Not helpful. Evasive interviewer. I thought I hadn't done well but was hard to understand the interviewer and they acted emotionless. No clue. The interviewer sounded like a junior programmer just out of school. No experience but know what the book says.
Received an email from the recruiter a week later saying it went well and wanting to schedule an onsite interview. I sent in a list of dates but apparently this recruiter ignores emails. A while later he emails wanting to talk and asks dates despite what I had sent earlier.
On site interview was awful even before it started. Dumpy off site building. I arrived early and they didn't have a lobby. The recruiter said he'd come out in a minute but it was a lie. I stood outside of the building for 15 minutes waiting.
Building interior dumpy. Every programmer in this particular facility appeared to be an import from India or Russia. Met no one from here during the entire day. Bad group. Question from an interviewer included, "how do you stay motivated". Sounded like a plea for advise to help him with a boring job. The manager said they get jerked around by arrogant people demanding they respond to random requests. Sounds like infighting.
Lunch was part of the interview with strange logic problems being described as we're walking around a cafeteria trying to find something to eat. Very hard to visualize.
Overall interview felt like gotcha interviewing. Trying to trip you up. Not helpful. Not respectful. Very geared to junior developers like a final exam from an algorithms course.
No surprise the recruiter ignored emails sent after the interview and created typos when filling out the template rejection email.
No way to provide feedback. Apple overall needs to improve this process from start to finish. Very unprofessional. Company feels like its imploding.
Even the trip coordinator messed up. Hotel room accidentally billed to my personal credit card. Again no one accepts responsibility. Wouldn't fix it but wanted me to submit paperwork to get reimbursed. Was time consuming.
Interview Questions
Char *c = malloc(50)
C++
free(c)
What happens?
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Other Details
The interview consisted of Phone Interview and 1:1 Interview