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My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

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Re: My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

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Post by yen223 »

jacques_chester wrote: post #27
joslin01 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. I always cringe a little bit when I see people breakdown their time to an imaginary monetary loss. This way of looking at things comes with a pretty heavy dose of narcissism if you ask me. It says "People would be paying me money for what I'm doing for free right now; look how much I'm sacrificing." While there might be quite a few people out there who could get away with billing their time at any given ho…

> Same here. I always cringe a little bit when I see people breakdown their time to an imaginary monetary loss. If you're freelancing, then it's not that imaginary. You're giving up billable time.

If his time was too valuable, he always had the choice to reject the interview and save that $6000. He chose to bet $6000 for a ~70% chance of getting a $200,000 job (or whatever). Sometimes bets fail. It's frustrating, but life goes on.

Re: My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

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Post by misiti3780 »

Miserlou57 wrote: post #6

About two years ago I was fast-tracked to interviews at Apple via recommendation. About 9 interviews later over 4 spread-out days, I was told I had done quite well during the interview process. Eventually I was not given the position because I was holding a beer in my LinkedIn picture. They ended up paying my current employer (their vendor at the time) astronomical amounts of money to do the very same service, done b…

how did you find out you were not given the job because of a beer in your Linkedin picture? - I never wanted to work for apple, but if this story is true it's very sad

Re: My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

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Post by PinnBrain »

joslin01 wrote: post #14
sb8244 wrote: post #4

Idk. Flaunting how much the process cost and how much income it lost was sort of put off for me. It's great to see insight into interviews, in general, but that just left a weird bitter note to the article.

Same here. I always cringe a little bit when I see people breakdown their time to an imaginary monetary loss. This way of looking at things comes with a pretty heavy dose of narcissism if you ask me. It says "People would be paying me money for what I'm doing for free right now; look how much I'm sacrificing." While there might be quite a few people out there who could get away with billing their time at any given ho…

I don't understand--I thought we have no ego. There is no self. There is even "egoless" programming.

Re: My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

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Post by copperx »

jeffbush wrote: post #18
samdk wrote: post #13

Note: after 25 minutes answering questions for a job you really want it’s kinda hard to shift to a question-asking mode. When I was looking for a job I found that it helped enormously to write down a set of questions ahead of time. Some I liked: What does a typical day look like for you? What projects do you work on? How long have you been at $company? How has your role changed since then? If I were hired for this ro…

I always find it a little funny as a manager when a prospective individual contributor asks me what a typical day is like for me. For me? I sit in meetings all day, thanks for asking. Would you like to know what a typical day would be like for you? :)

You can wipe that smug smile off your face. The individual is interested in what you, the manager, does in a day-to-day basis.

Re: My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

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Post by mikesickler »

Miserlou57 wrote: post #6

About two years ago I was fast-tracked to interviews at Apple via recommendation. About 9 interviews later over 4 spread-out days, I was told I had done quite well during the interview process. Eventually I was not given the position because I was holding a beer in my LinkedIn picture. They ended up paying my current employer (their vendor at the time) astronomical amounts of money to do the very same service, done b…

Was it like a Miller Lite or some other macro beer? If so then I can totally understand their rationale.

Re: My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

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Post by toephu2 »

valleyer wrote: post #52
steakejjs wrote: post #23

EVERYONE does a horrible job recruiting. I think a very low number of companies are doing this correctly. The thing about the process is one bad moment spoils the entire process for the candidate. Shallow/No responses, or horrible questions, or something unprofessional being said during the interview. It's not just $AAPL it is everyone, but if you are an interviewer or a recruiter, please fight for the candidates to…

$AAPL ? Why not “Apple”?

he's trying to belittle the company

Re: My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

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Post by acomjean »

fenomas wrote: post #39

I notice several comments about culture fit and not clicking with interviewers, but it's worth keeping in mind that there isn't always a "reason" for not getting an offer. Not related to the candidate, that is. Job openings sometimes disappear for random internal reasons, or there may have been another candidate for the same position who was objectively a much better fit. I feel you have to look at job interviews lik…

>but even with perfect play not every hand is winnable.

This is so true. If you remind the person interviewing of someone they don't like, your chances lessen. You have no control over that. Also be aware that non-HR people have to interview people with not a ton of guidance or experience in interviewing. When I interviewed people I was trying to figure out was 1) can this person help us, 2) what will it be like working with them.

Also remember that it can work the other way too. You are trying to see if you'd like to work there while interviewing. At my last company we had people reject us. And when looking for a job last year I politely told a couple companies I thought would be great I was not interested after interviewing.

Re: My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

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Post by Miserlou57 »

mikesickler wrote: post #65
Miserlou57 wrote: post #6

About two years ago I was fast-tracked to interviews at Apple via recommendation. About 9 interviews later over 4 spread-out days, I was told I had done quite well during the interview process. Eventually I was not given the position because I was holding a beer in my LinkedIn picture. They ended up paying my current employer (their vendor at the time) astronomical amounts of money to do the very same service, done b…

Was it like a Miller Lite or some other macro beer? If so then I can totally understand their rationale.

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