33 toughest Apple job interview questions

Apple is known for being one of the most challenging and exciting places to work, so it's not surprising to learn that getting a job there is no easy task. Like Google and other big tech companies, Apple asks both technical questions based on your past work experience and some mind-boggling puzzles.

While some of these are tricky math problems, others are simple but vague enough to keep you on your toes.

So, here's over to some of the toughest interview questions that candidates have been asked based on posts on job website Glassdoor.

1. Profile: Software engineer

Question: If you have 2 eggs, and you want to figure out what's the highest floor from which you can drop the egg without breaking it, how would you do it? What's the optimal solution?

2. Profile: Family room specialist

Question: Who is your best friend?"

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Documentary On The History Of Apple And Microsoft Show It Was All About Copying, Not Patents

We recently posted about an absolutely ridiculous NY Times op-ed piece in which Pat Choate argued both that patent laws have been getting weaker, and that if we had today's patent laws in the 1970s that Apple and Microsoft wouldn't have survived since bigger companies would just copy what they were doing and put them out of business. We noted that this was completely laughable to anyone who knew the actual history. A day or so ago, someone (and forgive me, because I can no longer find the tweet) pointed me on Twitter to a 45 minute excerpt from a documentary about the early days of Microsoft and Apple and it's worth watching just to show how laughably wrong Choate obviously is.

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Apple after Steve Jobs: 10 hits and misses

Oct. 5 marks the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs' death. During that time, Apple has had some amazing successes and some spectacular failures.

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Steve Jobs' 7 Key Decisions

When Steve Jobs officially returned to Apple 15 years ago, it marked a moment of rebirth for the ailing company. Within eight months (September 17, 1997, to be exact), he assumed the mantle of Interim CEO (later abbreviated to "iCEO" for cuteness) and executed a stark and keen strategy to save Apple from oblivion.

Almost a year after his untimely passing, it's a good time to look back at seven key moves Jobs made to right the Apple ship during his early days as iCEO.

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Apple Invents a Killer 3D Imaging Camera for iOS Devices

Apple has invented a killer 3D imaging camera that will apply to both still photography and video. The new cameras in development will utilize new depth-detection sensors such as LIDAR, RADAR and Laser that will create stereo disparity maps in creating 3D imagery. Additionally, the cameras will use advanced chrominance and luminance Sensors for superior color accuracy. And if that wasn't enough, the new cameras will not only include facial recognition but also facial gesturing recognition. Intel discussed the coming 3D revolution back in 2010 and it appears that Apple wants to be one of the first to introduce this killer 3D camera. While others may have beaten Apple to market first, the technology described in today's invention will definitely provide iOS devices with the ability to view killer 3D images that could only be appreciated on Apple's "Resolutionary" Retina Display. Apple's resolutionary experience has only begun. With the ability to view stunning 3D imagery, photos and videos on our new iPad displays, the resolutionary experience is only going pop our brains even further.

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Video: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together

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10 Ways to Think Different - Inside Apple's Cult-Like Culture

Apple’s culture is as distinct as its products are groundbreaking. That’s no accident; one leads to the other. It’s evident in every aspect of the company, every interaction with every employee from executive management to the salespeople in its renowned Apple stores.

If Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial spirit, employee ownership, and casual style changed corporate America, Apple took all that one giant step further. Apple’s culture is like a genetic mutation of the corporate America genome.

The following are the 10 Ways to Think Different - Inside Apple’s Cult-Like Culture.

• Empower employees to make a difference.
• Value what’s important, not minutiae.
• Love and cherish the innovators.
• Do everything important internally.
• Get marketing.
• Control the message.
• Little things make a big difference.
• Don’t make people do things, make them better at doing things.
• When you find something that works, keep doing it.
• Think different.

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