I approached the company via a friend. Two different groups approached me for two different positions. I was on a timeline, as within a few weeks I was on my way abroad for a long period of time. The recruiters worked well with me and scheduled interviews on short notice. Essentially this consisted of 1 phone screen. Then followed by first round of 4-5 interviewers for each position. I was rejected for one position, and went on to another 2nd round of 4-5 interviewers. The interviews were easy-moderate. This was probably because there was a lot of overlap between what my background was and what they were looking for. Most questions were based around describing my previous work and cross-questions. A few questions about design fundamentals. There were two interviewers who asked me about release mechanisms and understanding large design flows. Every interviewers was polite and professional. Then I left to India, and a few weeks later, I heard back from the recruiter. They were going ahead with an offer .

I had several apple interviews earlier, all the people(no matter HR, engineer or manager) were friendly and professional. However, this particular manager is being very rude, did not turn on his camera, did not introduce himself, and had frequent remarks like"if you don't know this you shouldn't be doing this job" even before I started answering the question. By the end of the day I did not even know his last name. This is not one of the worst interview I had, because this is THE WORST interview I ever had. It came more like a shock to me that apple allows this type of manager to exist, kind of dodged a bullet there.