Why is that with Apple, the interviewer wants his/her specific approach? New solutions are not welcomed. I have experienced this twice. Solutions are best optimized ( i check after wards where I could have done better)( No my attitude is not bad) After that I just start hoping for next steps and there you go! No feedback provided by recruiter and over the phone they say the solution works good and all is good when asked for feedback and the next thing u see is a reject! They want specific solutions what they have memorized or what? Or its just my bad luck with getting such interviewers? Before this they took 7 rounds onsite and after 3 weeks they said, Oh the position is closed! Decided: Will not interview for Apple again! As much as I have love for Apple, I have lost faith in the process!
Same thing happened to me during Facebook interview. At the end of the interview I realized he wanted me to solve it using backtracking when he mentioned the word. But my solution was better.
At least facebook gives detailed feedback as far as I have heard!
No. This is what I figured out. Their feedback was useless. The recruiter said that the team is looking for someone with more depth of knowledge. I told him that I coded the only question I was asked with the most efficient approach and other chit chat were also good. The recruiter kept repeating “depth of knowledge” bullshit .
Exact same thing with siri general knowledge team onsite, its ok op after watching the duplex demo they would be scared as hell
I am going to aim for a Siri competitor team in Amazon! Lets see
Do we need to specify multiple solutions and ask the interviewer which one to code?
Interviewer should be open to or know multiple approaches for the questions they ask
Do they atleast ask easy/medium or is it one of those stupid hard ones on leetcode?
This is a problem with a lot of interviews. The goal of interviews should never have been perfection. It should've been one of the solutions with a discussion on tradeoffs. Too bad that's just lost on interviewers these days
Apple is weird. It is kinda toxic like msft. If the team is bad, they can turn down candidates that appear too good (to reduce competition). This has to do with hierarchical org. This happens but is rare. What is more likely is you said something to make them suspicious of you. This is generally not technical
Hmn, it went good! At the end it was a working recursive approach and we tested many cases and he said it looks good!
Usually interviewers are open for alternative solutions as soon as they have same time/space complexity. Also, is it possible that you had bugs in the code which you didn't find? In such cases I would be more inclined to reject candidate, compared to when the solution is sub-optimal but works correctly.
I see. Do you never have bugs in your code? What if the company fired you for even a single bug? How about just hinting towards the bug and letting the candidate fix it?
That's what I usually do. Even presenting with a test case which will fail. You will be surprised how many people are still unable to work it through.
Who cares just move on
Every team at Apple interviews differently. There is very little formal interview guidelines/process which is good and bad.
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Sorry what team at Apple? You know you can interview with many teams at Apple.
Its Siri infrastructure, the first phone went good and second went good too, i am unable to find the better approach than that still.
Its surprising how much interviewing varies even within Siri infra.