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30 interviews to land a job at Apple.
The spouse of a colleague was just offered a position with Apple. He had 30, yes Thirty interviews over the course of several months. This is amazing to me, but I would like to hear others experiences with Apple, FB, Twitter etc.
- dluchi 16y agoI have a 1st round in person interview with Apple this week following 2 phone screens. Hopefully it's not the first of 30. All my previous interviewing experience is right out of college. I interviewed at several large tech companies and each followed a similar format: 1-2 phone screens, 1 all day on-site, 4-5 interviews. I know many companies have a 'hire', 'no hire', 'need more information' policy, so it might just have been that your colleague's spouse just kept falling into that need more information category.
- lloyddobbler 16y agoWow. While I respect a company that demands the best people and wants to find people who fit with its culture, I think that's a bit much. At a certain point, one begins to wonder how much a company like that values its employees, if they're going to make them jump through that many hoops in order to get a job. I mean, don't get me wrong - one hears that working at Apple, Google, FB, etc is the sh*t. But at a certain point, the whole process is analogous to the dating world. A person can play hard-to-get and make you jump through a string of hoops, but after a while, the interested party will inevitably reach the point where they realize their own self-worth and quit wasting their time. A company that puts candidates through a huge number of interview rounds begins to give the message that "the Company doesn't respect you - we're much more important." And at a certain point, the really capable candidates will have too much else on their plate to continue chasing after an opportunity that never seems any closer to bearing fruit.
- krevis 16y agoDoesn't match my experience when I worked there. We had a pretty typical setup: a few phone screens + one in-person all day interview round. I have to imagine he was interviewing around a bunch of different widely-spaced groups or something?
- danudey 16y agoI worked at a Chapters (Canadian large chain bookstore, like B&N), and while I was talking to the manager one day he said he had someone coming in for his third interview, and this was for a regular (non-management) position. Someone asked him how many interviews he did with a given candidate, and he said 'As many as I need to do until I'm sure either way'. Perhaps this was just the case with this individual - maybe they just couldn't make a hard decision yet.
- dstein 16y agoI honestly wouldn't want to work with people that aren't sure about me after a couple interviews.
- facecash 16y agoSorry, but this is absolute nonsense, something all too common with these friend-of-a-friend type stories. Unless he was interviewing with several different groups and getting rejected a bunch of times, there's no way he would have that many interviews.
- gw666 16y agoHeh. Back in the hiring frenzy of 1988, I had 18 interviews in one day (and this on a secret from-the-east-coast-and-back trip, one weekend and one day off). Eighteen. Separate. Interviews. Looks like Apple (still love 'em) is slowing down.
- robwgibbons 16y agoI wouldn't know about Apple corporate, but as for Apple Retail (I was a Genius), the interview process was very clean and straightforward.