An Apple mock interview on Devana is a voice interview with an AI interviewer on one of 54 Apple-style questions from Devana's bank: 18 coding, 12 system design, 15 technical deep dives and 9 behavioral. Your code runs, the interviewer asks follow-ups, and you get a score out of 100. Company question sets are on the Free plan. Devana is not affiliated with Apple, and these are not leaked or confirmed Apple questions.
What the Apple software engineer interview looks like
Apple does not describe its engineering interviews on any page we could find. What candidates consistently report is that the hiring team runs the process: a recruiter call, one or more technical screens with the team, then a longer set of interviews, often with many people from that team. Because the team sets the questions, they go deep into its own domain rather than across general topics, so the job posting is your best study guide. Treat these details as reported.
Two constraints shape what Apple's interviewers listen for. Apple's privacy page opens with "Privacy is a fundamental human right. It's also one of our core values," so expect to justify what data leaves the device. And much of its software runs on battery-powered hardware, so memory, performance and smoothness are engineering questions there, not polish.
The full guide, with the sources, is the Apple software engineer interview process.
What Devana practices for Apple
Devana's Apple set has 54 questions, 26 of them rated hard. The topics that come up most are Security, Systems Design, Concurrency and Frontend. They are Devana's own questions, written to reflect what Apple and its candidates have said publicly about its interviews. Start any of these as a mock interview:
| Round type | Questions | Examples (start a mock interview) |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | 18 | |
| System design | 12 | |
| Technical deep dives | 15 | |
| Behavioral | 9 |
Counted from Devana's question bank. Technical deep dives run as a system design round. Devana is not affiliated with Apple.
How to practice for Apple
- Go deep in the team's domain. Read the posting as a syllabus and expect to be taken several layers below what it names. Devana cannot target one team, but its Apple set goes deep on the platform: technical questions on automatic reference counting and where it fails, value versus reference semantics, and diagnosing dropped frames while scrolling.
- Say what your code costs in memory. Several Apple coding questions come with a memory budget, such as indexing a photo library within one, or coalescing high-frequency sensor updates to the display. State where your solution allocates before you are asked.
- Design for privacy first. The design questions include iCloud Photo Library sync and finding a device without a location database. Keep what the server knows to a minimum, and say why.
- Have stories about craft. The behavioral set asks about a detail you insisted on, working under secrecy, and arguing to leave something out.
How to set up an Apple mock interview
- Open the Apple set. The "Start a free Apple mock interview" button opens Devana's question bank filtered to Apple.
- Choose the round. Filter by type: coding, system design, technical deep dive or behavioral. A technical deep dive runs as a system design round, with a whiteboard.
- Choose the level. Filter by difficulty: easy, medium or hard. 26 of the 54 Apple questions are rated hard. You can also filter by topic.
- Start it. Press "Practice this question" and the voice interview starts on that question. Signed out, you are asked to sign in first; the Free plan needs no card.
- Role and style. A question from a company set uses your saved interviewer style and coding language from Settings. To choose your role, such as frontend or backend, and run a full two-problem round, start a standard interview from Practice instead; that setup cannot be pointed at one company.
How an Apple mock interview runs on Devana
Pick a question from the Apple set and you talk it through with Josh, Devana's AI interviewer, for up to 30 minutes on a paid plan (45 for a design question) or 20 on the Free plan. In a coding question your code runs in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java or C++; a design question has a whiteboard the interviewer reads; a behavioral question gets follow-ups about what you personally did. Each session ends with a score out of 100 on that round's rubric and a list of what raised and lowered it. For a full-length round with two problems, start a standard mock interview from Practice instead: up to 60 minutes on a paid plan, though you cannot choose the company. The mock interviews by round page shows each round type.
Guides to study first
- Graphs, for detecting retain cycles in an object graph
- Sliding window, for coalescing a stream of updates
- Arrays and hashing, for indexing within a memory budget
- Choosing and modeling a database, for sync designs
- Message queues and async work, for background sync and uploads
- Leadership and influence, for arguing to leave something out
Devana is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Apple. The questions are Devana's own and are not leaked or confirmed Apple interview questions.
Frequently asked questions
Are Devana's Apple questions real Apple interview questions?
No. Devana's 54 Apple questions are its own, written to reflect what Apple and its candidates have said publicly about its interviews. They are not leaked or confirmed Apple questions, and Devana is not affiliated with Apple.
Can I do an Apple mock interview for free?
Yes. Company question sets are on Devana's Free plan, which includes 3 mock interviews a month of up to 20 minutes each, on any of the 54 Apple questions. On the Sprint Pass or Pro, a single question runs up to 30 minutes, or 45 for a system design question.
How are Apple interviews different from other big tech loops?
Candidates consistently report that the hiring team runs the process and sets its own questions, so the interviews go deep into that team's domain rather than across general topics. Apple publishes little about its engineering interviews, so treat this as reported, and use the job posting as your syllabus.