Inside Apple's interview loop: 3 days, 9+ interviewers, 8 hours over late-night FaceTime
jdluk87 · x · 2026-10-13
An Apple employee recounts his hiring process: interviews spread over 3 days, all via FaceTime at 11 PM Italian time, totaling 8+ hours with 9+ people including QA teammates, localization engineers, product engineers, and managers.
Four months of bureaucracy later he signed, relocated to Milan, then to San Francisco a year later — six years he calls the most stimulating of his life.
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