[From Online Resource] Apple Touch HW and Sensor Calibration Instrument Two-Team Interview Experience

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Job Search Year/Season: 2021 (July-September)

Highest current education level: Master's

Job Source: Recruiter - Technical Phone Interview, Onsite

Interview Experience: 😃 Positive

Interview Difficulty: 😣 Hard

Interview Result: Pass

There are very few interview experiences from non-software engineers and non-circuit design professionals, so I hope this can help our minority friends. Background: I have 10 years of experience in a semiconductor company, working as an application engineer in touch, haptics, and force sensing. Years ago, I posted a thread discussing what it means to be an application engineer in a semiconductor company.

In semiconductor companies, application engineers are often jacks-of-all-trades, like a brick in a wall, moved wherever needed, their sole purpose being to help the company sell chips to customers. Years later, some of my application colleagues switched to coding, some to marketing, and some became real estate brokers.

Moving on to the interview: I interviewed with two teams, both related to my previous experience. Not coding, not circuit design. One was touch hardware validation, the other was

Company

Apple

Location

Not specified

Posted

August 26, 2021