What It's Like Getting Hired By Apple
Jeremy FooThe job offer package.
When Apple offers you a job, it sends along a job offer package that looks like one of its products.
"Well designed, great unboxing experience and super high quality materials," says Jeremy Foo, who got a job at Apple and wrote about the process on Medium.
Foo tried to get a job at Apple for four years.
He says his first attempt was a learning experience. He was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn. He did well-enough on the phone interview that he was asked to write some code.
"The code review was brutal," says Foo. "The author of UITableView eviscerated every decision I made in the design of that piece of work. It was pretty obvious that at that moment, everything was a bust. What I also did realise was also how high the bar was and that I had a lot of work to do."
He spent the next few years bouncing around the world, working at startups (including his own).
Jeremy FooAh, paperwork.
In June of this year, an Apple recruiter reached out to him again through LinkedIn. Apple is looking for people on the Apple TV team. But, the Apple TV team rejected his resume. The recruiter tried other parts of the company, but he couldn't make the onsite interview. After that, Foo heard nothing from Apple.In September, someone from the Apple TV team tweeted that he was hiring. Foo decided to take one more run at a job at Apple. This time he had success. He got through the phone interviews, and had an onsite interview set up.
He described the hiring process:
He went home, unsure of how he did. But, it worked out. He received a job offer via FedEx, and he'll begin working at Apple in January.