Edition Siliconus published a story about how a software developer trying to get a job at Apple. According to Jeremy Fu, he took it for four years. As the programmer, when Apple offers job seekers, then draws his letter as if it were one of its products.
"Great design, luxurious materials" - wrote about the invitation to the interview Jeremy. If you believe the record Fu, out to get a job in a corporation, he spent four years.
A few years ago with him through the network LinkedIn recruiter contacted Apple. Fu was a phone interview, after which he was asked to perform the test task.
"Description of the code was just ruthless - says Fu. - Author UITableView "gutted" every decision that I took part in this work. At that moment it became clear that I failed this attempt. In addition, I realized how high was the strap, and that I will have a lot of work on".
The next few years he spent driving around the world and working in startups (including, in its own).
In June 2014 Apple recruiter turned back to Fu and said that the team is looking for specialist Apple TV. Apple TV employees rejected resume Jeremy, then HR-specialist tried to arrange Fu in other departments of the company, but he was unable to attend the interview. After this, the programmer writes, he did not get long to Apple any messages.
In September 2014 a team of representatives from Apple TV, wrote in his blog on Twitter, that he is looking for employees. Fu decided to make another attempt to get into the company. This time he did it. Jeremy went telephone interviews and going to the interview.
He describes the hiring process as follows:
"The company paid all the expenses. I arrived the day before the interview to get used to the time difference, I was met by a rented car, which drove me to the hotel. Rest of the day I spent on rote learning algorithms and data structures".
Interview with two different specialists was divided into 45-minute segments. Five interviews with a short break for lunch.
"Perhaps it was the most intense thing through which I ever had to go through to get the job done. I still remember that day. I am infinitely grateful to the people who conducted the interview, because they did not ask crazy questions from the course Computer Science 101.
Topics covered were quite adequate, most of the problems about which we spoke already met me in my work. Some questions even touched my philosophical views on engineering".
After the interview, Jeremy went home, not knowing whether or not he coped. A December 11, 2014 he received in the mail a job offer and January 2015 will start his career at Apple.