Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Apple (Cupertino, CA) nel mese di mag 2021
Colloquio
I applied online and scheduled a phone call from apple HR, asking about general background. Then, I had technical interview with hiring manager. still waiting for feedback about next steps.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
1. Cantilever beam questions, how to improve stiffness of cantilever beam that holds apple logo in free end? name as many ways as you can.
2. Where the max deflection will happen? where point the stress is largest?
3. If you add extra stiffener, will you add it on top surface of the beam or bottom?
4. Which common injection molding defects you faced before? how you fix them?
5. four parts need to be made out from mold, where are the ideal positions for sprue, runner and gate?
6. which side should plastic inject from? core or cavity?
7. what's the difference between Cp and Cpk, which value indicates good tolerance control?
8. Name heat transfer modes.
9. Heat conduction question, know temperature, size, thermal conductivity of the heat source and thermal compound, calculate temperature on the other side.
10. Explain the definition of stress and strain?
The interview went well overall. The interviewer opened with a discussion about a project I'm proud of, then a beam scenario question that covered structural and load analysis, stress and deflection, and material selection — testing my ability to connect first-principles thinking across the full problem space.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite l'università. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Apple (Cupertino, CA) nel mese di apr 2026
Colloquio
Interview with hiring manager then virtual onsite. They ask you general mechanical engineering questions as well as questions dependent on type of team and skills they are looking for. Not bad overall just brush up on basic beam deflection, GD&T, Design analysis etc.
They gave me a take home tolerance analysis worksheet. It was essentially a tolerance stack up for one of their products and felt fairly straight forward. Thought I answered it well but ultimately they decided to move forward with other candidates.