Apple's Job Interview Questions

We have a cup of hot coffee and a small cold milk out of the fridge.
The room temperature is in between these two.
When should we add milk to coffee to get the coolest combination earliest (at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end)?

How much does the Empire State Building weigh?

How do you check if a binary tree is a mirror image on left and right sub-trees?

What superhero would you be and why?

Explain what RAM is to a five year old.

How does an airplane wing work?

Draw the inside architecture of an iPhone.

Give me 5 ways of measuring how much gasoline is in a car.

If you have 2 eggs, and you want to figure out what's the highest floor from which you can drop the egg without breaking it, how would you do it?
What's the optimal solution?

How would you break down the cost of this pen?

Describe an interesting problem and how you solved it.

Explain to an 8-year-old what a modem/router is and its functions.

How many children are born every day?

You have 100 coins laying flat on a table, each with a head side and a tail side.
10 of them are heads up, 90 are tails up.
You can't feel, see or in any other way find out which side is up.
Split the coins into two piles such that there are the same number of heads in each pile.

How would you test your favorite app?

There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges.
The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels.
Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit.
By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?

Scenario:
You're dealing with an angry customer who was waiting for help for the past 20 minutes and is causing a commotion.
She claims that she'll just walk over to Best Buy or the Microsoft Store to get the computer she wants. Resolve this issue.

A man calls in and has an older computer that is essentially a brick.
What do you do?

Are you smart?

What are your failures, and how have you learned from them?

Have you ever disagreed with a manager's decision, and how did you approach the disagreement?
Give a specific example and explain how you rectified this disagreement, what the final outcome was, and how that individual would describe you today.

You put a glass of water on a record turntable and begin slowly increasing the speed.
What happens first — does the glass slide off, tip over, or does the water splash out?

Tell me something that you have done in your life which you are particularly proud of.

Are you creative?
What's something creative that you can think of?

Describe a humbling experience.

What's more important, fixing the customer's problem or creating a good customer experience?

Why did Apple change its name from Apple Computers Incorporated to Apple Inc.?

You seem pretty positive.
What types of things bring you down?

Show me (role play) how you would show a customer you're willing to help them by only using your voice.

What brings you here today?

Given an iTunes type of app that pulls down lots of images that get stale over time, what strategy would you use to flush disused images over time?

If you're given a jar with a mix of fair and unfair coins, and you pull one out and flip it 3 times, and get the specific sequence heads heads tails, what are the chances that you pulled out a fair or an unfair coin?

What was your best day in the last 4 years?
What was your worst?

When you walk in the Apple Store as a customer, what do you notice about the store/how do you feel when you first walk in?

Why do you want to join Apple and what will you miss at your current work if Apple hired you?

How would you test a toaster?

If you are to go up the mountain one day and come down the next day, leaving at the same time, will you ever be at the same place at the same time of day?

Are you the type of person people come to for technical issues?

62 - 63 = 1
Changing only one element (either digit or operand), make this statement true.

What is your favorite ice cream?

How do you create an efficient supply chain model?

Describe a time when you hurt a friend and how did you handle it?

How would you plan a hand gliding trip for your colleagues to North Korea?

What sort of data would you ask for when looking to bring iPhone to a new market?



Source:
https://www.businessinsider.in/44-of-the-hardest-questions-Apple-will-ask-in-a-job-interview/What-sort-of-data-would-you-ask-for-when-looking-to-bring-iPhone-to-a-new-market-Finance-candidate-at-Apple/slideshow/58550053.cms

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