As a quick illustration, two interview questions Microsoft has been known to ask include: How would you design an ATM for children? and I am your grandmother. Describe what MATLAB is to me. Recently, we pored over a whole lot of interview data from Glassdoor to come up with some of the more interesting, puzzling, and at times wacky questions prospective Apple employees have been asked during job interviews. 30 difficult questions Apple asks in interviews : Technology giant Apple is among the world's most-sought after workplaces. So it's little surprising that it is not easy to get a job at the company. Like other technology bigwigs, Apple too reportedly asks a mix of both technical and non-technical questions during the job interviews. Here are 30 tough questions faced by candidates at during job interviews at Apple. Note: The list is based on the questions shared by candidates on the jobs website Glassdoor.
1. Question: If you are in a boat with a boulder and you drop that boulder into the lake how does the water level before and after you drop the boulder in the lake compare?
2. Question: You have 3 light bulbs upstairs and 3 light switches downstairs but don't know which switch connects to witch bulb. How can you switch the bulbs once and then go upstairs and immediately know which switch belongs to which bulb?
3. Question: If there are 25 teams in a single elimination tournament, how many games does it take to pick a winner?
4. Question: Look at this luxury watch and tell what can cause the sapphire screen to crack?
5. Question: What's more important, fixing the customer's problem or creating a good customer experience?
6. Question: The iPhone has a feature for when a user begins to enter a contacts name or email address, a list of possible matches is built. How would you implement this in order for the search to perform quickly and change each time a user inputs a character?
7. Question: If you had a string and wrapped tightly around the world and you wanted to lift it up 1m off the ground everywhere, how much would the string have to stretch?
8. Question: Rank the following metals in order of decreasing thermal conductivity: Silver, Ice, copper, air, steel, aluminum.
9. Question: You are on the elevator with the CEO, and you have 1 minute to reach the final floor and you want to convince him to hire you. What would you say?
10. Question: 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)?
11. Question: How would you check the assembly of a phone
12. Question: How would you survive on a desert isle until rescue comes?
13. Question: If you were app, which would you be?
14. Question: You have a list of lyrics. Write a function to count the frequency of each word in the function. Adjust the function to get the top 5 most frequent words
15. Question: If you have two cars starting at two blocks A and B. If they both start with the same speed and the same instructions set is executed by both the cars. Write the instruction set to make the cars collide.
16. Question: If you had steel, stainless steel, and aluminum on the table, how would you tell them apart?
17. Question: What was your first Apple product and how did it impact your life?
18. Question: Explain what RAM is to a five year old.
19. Question: If you were a monkey, what sort of zoo paddock would you find most disagreeable?
20. Question: What is your favorite Apple product feature?
21. Question: Imagine you are with a customer who knows more than you, and you don't have a clue how to answer a particular question they just asked?
22. Question: If I were walking down the street and swathe New York Times on the ground with my face on the cover, what would the headline say?
23. Question: How would you solve an issue if you didn't know exactly what the problem was?
24. Question: How would you write the business requirements for a toaster?
25. Question: How would you solve an issue if you didn't know exactly what the problem was?
26. Question: How many children are born every day?
27. Question: 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?
28. Question: Ants are at the corners of an equilateral triangle labelled 1, 2, and 3, each ant starts moving towards the next one (1 towards 2, 2 towards 3, 3 towards 1) at the same constant speed. How long until they meet?
29. Question: A grandma calls claiming she lost all her pictures and is crying. How do you troubleshoot this situation?
30. Question: If you were an Apple product, which one would you be?
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