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      Firmware Engineer Interview

      13 Jul 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Santa Clara, CA

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      Firmware Engineer Interview

      21 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Cupertino, CA
      No offer
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple (Santa Clara, CA) in Apr 2018

      Interview

      First had an initial phone call with the team manager. Talked about general embedded concepts, semaphores, mutexes, Real-time OS experience I had. Pleasant conversation overall, he said to refresh on basic C concepts for the in person interview. In person was overall a rushed experience. No overview for number of interviewers but first person just dove in and started asking questions. Difficult to understand many of the interviewers. The next interviewer would come in and interrupt the current question then just start the next problem. No sense of any personality fit for the group - basically felt I could have been at home and doing programming while they watched not sure why they had a face to face since they just wanted to look at code..

      Interview questions [6]

      Question 1

      Make a bitmask that takes as input a width and position
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Reverse the elements in an array
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      Eliminate duplicates from an array
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      Cashiers make change problem
      Answer question

      Question 5

      Make an interpolation function
      Answer question

      Question 6

      Convert a string to an integer value
      1 Answer
      2
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Apple (Cupertino, CA) in Feb 2026

      Interview

      Technical screening was directly and only coding. Didn't ask intro or anything. Try to explain theory concepts in between coding, they seem to like it. Basic C question, pointer arithmatic, bit manipuation etc,

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Aligned & Free Malloc, pointer arithmatic, Bit manipulation and Array Question. Overall it was easy, I didn't perform well due to nervousness.
      Answer question

      Firmware Engineer Interview

      8 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Apple in Jan 2026

      Interview

      The role description was pretty vague, listing only desiring a number of years of C++ experience, an embedded systems background, and strong programming/debugging skills. The recruiter moved me onto the first technical screen with the hiring manager. I was told that the main objective of this screen was to assess my coding ability. During the technical screen, which was friendly and professional to be fair, I was able to pass the coding question and come up with the correct solution. I was also asked technical questions. I knew the answers to some, but others were, imo, extremely niche and domain specific, and my current experience didn't cover those. I was then ghosted for three weeks. I had to ask for an update from the recruiter, who finally informed me that the team didn't find me to be the right fit. It's clear that the recruiter and hiring manager don't actually agree on what they want. The process ended up feeling like a huge waste of time.

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      Question 1

      Live coding question: move raw data stored in packed 12-bit integers and 64-byte rows, with padding, into an NxM matrix of 16-bit integers.
      1 Answer

      Firmware Engineer Interview

      11 Dec 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Apple

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      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      code interview using C++ and solving 2 problems and explain about the fundamental knowledge about electrical engineering
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