Apple Automation Test Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Test
Experience: It was constituted of two parts: Logic and DI. Both parts were simple. Questions were CAT type.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Simple C, C++ questions were asked. Technical questions based on internship project were asked. General questions asked to check reaction to sudden stress (for example: Why do earthquakes occur?).
Tips: Courses like DSP (application based) and information systems should be thorough. Knowing 1 programming language is very essential.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Resume based questions were asked.
Tips: Know complete details of your interns, BTP and resume thoroughly.

College Name: IIT KANPUR

Round: Interview
Experience: A systematic approach is all what he expects from us. Our approach and our way of thinking is what he observes. An algorithm to solve a single face worked in my case. So called HR interview was more technical and a discussion about the projects mentioned in my resume.
Tips: An overview on problems like sudoku, rubik's cube, chess etc. A proper approach and a structure for solving the problem should be mentioned.

Round: Interview
Experience: Some questions on basic data structures, dynamic programming and recursion.
Tips: Recognize the problem(dp, recursion, etc.). Throw some algorithm.

General Tips: Be clear with basics.
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Skills: Data structures, Data Processing, Recursion
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: SAMSUNG!
Funny Moments: A saviour for the leftover cse students especially b.tech and dual. It does not depend on whether your interview went well or not. Just basic cse stuff is enough.

Round: Test
Experience: Objective test in C(30 min),followed by a paper-based coding test.(1 hour, Written ).
Tips: There are old Samsung tests available online. The questions are based on the same fundamentals.Coding test focuses more on getting the pseudo code and logic right
Duration: 90 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interview questions were mostly based on projects and skills mentioned in the resume.Be sure to read up on your projects.They asked to explain the code.On the lines of how would I approach the problem of getting faster downloads in cellphones.

General Tips: I got selected because of my projects fit the profile they were looking for. They seemed to like the Olympiad ranks too.Data structures and algorithms basic fundaes, C coding and theory (asked in every profile), Revision of your electives (depending the core specialization)For any communication profile, do not ignore revision of courses and also it was necessary to read up
further as MTechs and MS students have an edge.
Skill Tips: Went through all the literature for all my projects.My courses and projects were all related to Communication Networks and Communication Systems. This background made the questions easier to answer. Majority of questions were about network protocols and network architecture.Started preparing DS&A at the beginning of seventh sem because I had never taken the course. The rest of it can be revised a couple of weeks before the tests start.
Skills: Algorithm, C Programming, Communication Networks, Communication Systems, Network protocols, Network architecture.
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Shortlisting done based on resume.
Tips: Create good resume highlighting projects and research work. Remain updated about the company's research work.

Round: Test
Experience: There are two written tests. One is based on C and algorithms.
Tips: Old Samsung tests that are available online.Knowledge of C is must.
Duration: 30 minutes

Round: Test
Experience: The second test is paper-based coding test.
Tips: Coding test is used to mainly gauge your logic applying abilities.
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Interview
Experience: Personal Interview: one round lasting around 40 minutes.
 Interview questions were mostly straightforward, technical and based on projects and
research work mentioned in the resume.
 Previous day's code is also asked to explain.
 Couple of questions were about the company's on-going work. In-depth knowledge regarding courses related to the profile is necessary.
Tips: Revise courses, Project work. Additional reading is recommended.
Basics of core subjects.

College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude was quite easy they just asked us basic questions from Math,logical reasoning and english
Tips: Just think well before u do..
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 40

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: It was face to face .. the interviewee asked questions from our resume... Since I m from computer science background they asked some technical questions..

Tips: Beware filling ur resume.. they will ask every stuff that you have in resume

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Discussion about my project that i vr done in my final year.they asked me what was my role in my project

College Name: Sri ganesh college of engineering and technology

Round: Test
Experience: there were 20 MCQ which were on ds , networks and basic coding followed by 2 coding questions.
1) print all the distinct substrings of a given string in lexicographical order
2) find the max i-j value in the given array of 0's and 1's such that there are equal number of zeros and ones, where i is the starting index and j is the ending index of the array.
Tips: make sure that you pass atleast half the test cases for both the question.
Duration: 90 minutes
Total Questions: 22

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1) i printed left view then leaves and right view using three level order traversals . he asked me to use one traversal only, then i told him the approach and wrote the working code.
2) told him the approach and coded it.
Tips: look at corner cases properly. the interviewers were friendly, so i felt relaxed.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1) i told him a recursive O(2^n) solution, optimised it to O(n^2). he told me to optimise further. Then i finally came up with O(n) solution after 5 min and he was satisfied . i coded it. he was satisfied finally :D .
2) came up with the approach immediately and coded it. he was satisfied.
Tips: he was very particular about corner cases and he checked the code througly tested it on some cases to ensure it was working.

General Tips: be cool. interviewers were friendly. tell them what you are thinking and be clear with the question before answering to avoid wasteage of time.
Skill Tips: solve problems from codechef, spoj and codeforces. solve interview questions from geeksforgeeks and careercup.
Skills: the way you think, coding skills and knowledge on data structures.
Duration: 3
College Name: IIT Roorkee
Motivation: some good seniors got intern, so i was inspired.
Funny Moments: on the interview day a person came into the conference room to call me for interview, i didnt thought he was interviewer. he was very simple, but intelligent and at last i felt like asking him to ask me one more coding question as it was fun solving questions infront of him, but i didnt do that as i was frightened if i would not be able to answer it would be a negative remark :P .

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: coding and submission before face to face interview shortlisting
Tips: practice coding ,coding is key to success for SE

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: based on marks ,I was called for F2F
Tips: the ppt was to be submitted explaining the approach

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: a lot of brain storming
Tips: understands the nitty gritty of the structs and algos

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: exact code was to be written instead of pseudo code
Tips: get hold of DS,Algos

Round: Test
Experience: The first test
contained 25 objective questions encompassing the basics of Computer Science ranging from
data structures, networks and operating systems to theory of computation
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 25

Round: Test
Experience: The second test contained 3 coding questions.
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: HR Interview
Experience: After the written test, next day I appeared for 3 interviews.
They were checking if you can write code and also if you are aware of the practical issues faced while coding. In the final round they were testing if you could abstract out a real world
problem into code.
Tips: Overall I can say that you must hope for the best and prepare for the
worst. So make sure that you are prepared on all counts. You never know what might go wrong.