I had a virtual onsite with Apple this Monday and I had made the recruiter aware of my deadlines with other offers and he told me they would get back with a decision by Wednesday. Overall my interview was good, except one round which I would say was decent. I was given a problem to debug and I wasn’t able to figure out the solution entirely on my own and needed help from the interviewer to arrive at the final solution. It is now Thursday and I haven’t heard back from the recruiter. I have a deadline for another offer on Friday and the recruiter is aware of that. Does apple need the candidate to ace all rounds in order to get an offer. Also if I haven’t heard back from the recruiter by Friday, should I assume the worst and move on? #tech #onsite #career
Seems like these days, acing all the rounds is the only way to get offers from FAANG. I also had similar experience at Amazon, decent or half decent or ok interviews don't cut it. You have to crush it at each and every rounds.
That's not true, see my response to OP below
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Maybe a hope. I got rejected very next day. I aced all rounds and had 20 mins window to chat.
What do you mean by 20 mins window to chat?
I finished questions in 40 mins
Did you hear back?
Not yet. Planning to follow up with recruiter on monday.
Which team did u Interview with
IMG
Hey OP did you hear back?
Yep its a reject
OP: did you hear back from them? I also interviewed with the same team last week. PM me for more details.
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PM is irrelevant role and will die in next 2-3 years.
It is a rejection, I'm very sorry buddy
Do they need the candidates to ace all the rounds?
No you don't need to ace every round, I interviewed at Apple and didn't ace all rounds and still got accepted after 3 days from the onsite. You have to understand that it is not just about the technical side, it is also about your personality and way you act and behave during the interviews and your enthusiasm about solving these problems, in addition to your communication skills that show case your thoughts. I have seen people who were way smarter than I on the coding side but still failed because they failed to communicate or they are awkward to work with. At the end of the day, your interviwers are human, so you gotta appeal to the human side as well.