As of October 29, 2013, the company had approximately 80,300 full-time employees world-wide. All of which had been through the strict requirement to be one of the employees of World’s 2nd largest information technology company.
Each applicants need to go through 3 to 4 rounds of interviews, that is if Apple is satisfied with the resumes you’ve given them. Details of the first interview will be notified to the candidates after about 2 to 4 weeks.
The first interview will be a group interview. Applicants will be set in a group setting with about 15 other candidates. During this first interview, Apple employees will ask each candidate a series of social questions, social and more of a people person would be what Apple really wants. During this interview as well, the candidates will also be present for several role-play scenarios in which they get to act both as the Apple employee and as the customer. Each parts of the interview will be carefully screened, even the interactions between candidates. The most important point was to dress properly, smile and ask questions.
If the candidates have passed the first interviews, then there will be a background check.
The second interview will be notified within 2 to 6 days or a week span and a phone call will be received by each candidate who had passed the first one. They will be asked about their opinion on Apple, about their interest of job position in Apple, etc. This phone call interview might last for 15 minutes and the candidate will be ask to come in person for another interview in which they will be asked of their past experience and how to handle certain situations and many other things. The interview will be done one on one with the store manager.
For the third interview, every response of the candidate might be evaluated, like will the candidate respond with a question or a situation. It might also be possible that they were told not to wear anything formal like shirt and tie, so in conclusion they might also be evaluated by their clothing. The questions asked in the third interviews would most likely similar to the last 2 interviews about how they past experience and how to handle certain situations. This interview will be done one on one with the general manager.
For the last interview, the candidate will be ask to come into another one on one interview with the head manager/high level manager. At first, it might be like the past three interviews, some standard questions were asked, but it might get to more personalized question about the past of the candidates. The interview might last for 20 minutes and it was said that the candidate will be notified within 3 to a week span.
The rejection which happen to most of the applicants will be notified either using emails or phone calls, but it was more common that it will be done through emails.
Each applicants need to go through 3 to 4 rounds of interviews, that is if Apple is satisfied with the resumes you’ve given them. Details of the first interview will be notified to the candidates after about 2 to 4 weeks.
The first interview will be a group interview. Applicants will be set in a group setting with about 15 other candidates. During this first interview, Apple employees will ask each candidate a series of social questions, social and more of a people person would be what Apple really wants. During this interview as well, the candidates will also be present for several role-play scenarios in which they get to act both as the Apple employee and as the customer. Each parts of the interview will be carefully screened, even the interactions between candidates. The most important point was to dress properly, smile and ask questions.
If the candidates have passed the first interviews, then there will be a background check.
The second interview will be notified within 2 to 6 days or a week span and a phone call will be received by each candidate who had passed the first one. They will be asked about their opinion on Apple, about their interest of job position in Apple, etc. This phone call interview might last for 15 minutes and the candidate will be ask to come in person for another interview in which they will be asked of their past experience and how to handle certain situations and many other things. The interview will be done one on one with the store manager.
For the third interview, every response of the candidate might be evaluated, like will the candidate respond with a question or a situation. It might also be possible that they were told not to wear anything formal like shirt and tie, so in conclusion they might also be evaluated by their clothing. The questions asked in the third interviews would most likely similar to the last 2 interviews about how they past experience and how to handle certain situations. This interview will be done one on one with the general manager.
For the last interview, the candidate will be ask to come into another one on one interview with the head manager/high level manager. At first, it might be like the past three interviews, some standard questions were asked, but it might get to more personalized question about the past of the candidates. The interview might last for 20 minutes and it was said that the candidate will be notified within 3 to a week span.
The rejection which happen to most of the applicants will be notified either using emails or phone calls, but it was more common that it will be done through emails.