Apple is one of the most reputable corporations in the world. Therefore, securing a position here is not easy at all. Typically, Apple poses recruitment questions that are both technical (based on the candidate’s past experience) and incorporate some brain teasers to assess their reactions.
If you’re interviewing for a position at Apple’s retail stores, you will have to answer many questions about how to handle an unhappy customer.
Business Insider has compiled a series of recruitment questions shared by candidates who have interviewed at Apple on Glassdoor. These are considered to be the “toughest” questions the corporation uses to evaluate candidates.
Among them, there is one question that many people are curious about:
“62 – 63 = 1; move one digit to make this equation correct” – This question is for software engineering candidates. And the answer is to change the number 62 to 26 (2 raised to the 6th power = 64), then subtract 63 to get the result of 1.
Here are other questions in Apple’s “challenge”:
A question for product design candidates: “We have a hot cup of coffee and a cold glass of milk just taken out of the fridge, left at room temperature. When should we add the milk to the coffee for the best combination? Right away, wait a moment, or wait longer?”.
Solution consultant candidate: “How much does the Empire State Building weigh?”.
Retail candidate: “Which superhero would you choose and why?”.
Apple Genius candidate: “Explain the concept of RAM to a five-year-old.”.
Systems engineer candidate: “How does a wing of an airplane work?”.
Hardware engineer candidate: “List 5 ways to measure the amount of gasoline left in a car.”.
Software engineer candidate: “If you have 2 eggs and want to find out which is the highest floor from which you can drop an egg without it breaking, what would you do? What is the optimal solution?”.
Global supply chain director candidate: “How many children are born each day?”.
Software engineer candidate: “There are 100 mixed coins on the table, of which 10 are tails up and 90 are heads up. You do not know which are tails or heads and cannot touch or look at the coins. How do you divide the 100 coins into 2 parts so that each part has the same number of tails?”.
Software quality assurance engineer candidate: “There are 3 boxes, 1 containing apples, 1 containing oranges, and 1 containing both apples and oranges. All 3 boxes are mislabeled and cannot be distinguished by what is inside. You can only open one box, cannot look inside, and take out only one fruit. How can you determine exactly which box contains which fruit just by looking at that fruit?”.
Construction engineer candidate: “Are you smart?”.
Mechanical engineer candidate: “Place a cup of water on a spinning table and start accelerating. What happens first: does the cup slide off, tip over, or does the water splash out?”.
Apple consultant candidate: “What is more important, resolving customer issues or creating a good customer experience?”.
Expert candidate: “Why did Apple change its name from Apple Computers Incorporated to Apple Inc.?”.
Technical project manager candidate: “What was your best and worst day in the last 4 years?”.
Expert candidate: “When you walk into an Apple Store as a customer, what do you feel first?”.
Software engineer candidate: “Why do you want to join Apple? What will you miss about your current job if Apple hires you?”.
Administrative assistant candidate: “What is your favorite ice cream flavor?”.
Technical specialist candidate: “Tell me about a time you hurt a friend. How did you handle it?”.
Technical specialist candidate: “What is your favorite Apple device? Why?”.
Senior project manager candidate: “Tell me about a time you failed miserably.”.
AppleCare advisor candidate: “What is the first troubleshooting step you would take if someone said their Wi-Fi is not working on their iPhone?”.
Financial candidate: “What is Apple’s stock price?”.
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Source: Business Insider