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Job Search Year/Season: 2021 (July-September)
Highest current education level: Master's
Job Source: Referral - Technical Phone Interview
Interview Result: Other
The internship interview process at Apple was incredibly long, with one round followed by three more back-to-back rounds. I applied for a DV (Digital Visualization) position, but the interview content wasn't very relevant
. I got a referral from a friend, and HR contacted me about a week later to schedule an interview
. The first round was a phone interview with a Taiwanese guy, who was very nice. We started by casually discussing the two DV projects on my resume. Then he wanted to talk about two small VLSI algorithms I wrote in C++, but I had just copied them line by line from Git, so my understanding wasn't very deep and we didn't discuss them for long. Next, the code...appleEvery interview includes a code board; you generally don't need to compile on the spot, writing pseudocode should be fine. I was asked to choose between C++ and Verilog, and I chose Verilog. The questions were very simple and basic, mainly about Verilog's basic usage, the difference between == and ===, the difference between blocking and non-blocking, and the difference between behavioral and structural. He probably wasn't very familiar with Verilog, which was a good thing for me. After writing
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