# Apple Software Engineer Interview Questions Aced (formerly Exponent) publishes a public search API over its indexed pages; the guide is at https://www.aced.io/agents/agent-access. Source: https://www.aced.io/guides/apple-software-engineer-interview/questions Source observed: 2026-11-04T22:02:49.139Z Last checked: 2026-11-04T22:02:49.139+00:00 Indexed: 2026-11-06T04:55:26.605+00:00 --- # Apple Software Engineer Interview Questions We provide interview-preparation resources through Aced, formerly Exponent. This page is the **Questions** section of our [Apple Software Engineer (SWE) Interview Guide](https://www.aced.io/guides/apple-software-engineer-interview). It is focused on software-engineering interview questions associated with Apple and includes practice links, answer counts, recency labels, and video-answer indicators where available. Updated 7 days ago by Apple candidates. ## Guide sections - [Expert guide](https://www.aced.io/guides/apple-software-engineer-interview) - [Interview experiences — 20](https://www.aced.io/guides/apple-software-engineer-interview/experiences) - **Questions — 133** (current section) - [Resumes — 117](https://www.aced.io/guides/apple-software-engineer-interview/resumes) ## Trending Software Engineer interview questions at Apple The following questions are listed with their displayed answer counts and recency labels. Each can be opened for more detail or practiced through Aced. 1. [**What's your favorite product and why?** — Has video answer](https://www.aced.io/questions/20/favorite-product) — 334 answers; +34 a month ago. 2. [**Edit distance** — Has video answer](https://www.aced.io/questions/3891/edit-distance) — 86 answers; +64 months ago. 3. [**Tell me about a time you disagreed with someone and how you resolved it.**](https://www.aced.io/questions/1350/time-disagreed-someone-resolved) — 71 answers; +9 a month ago. 4. [**Tell me about a time you had a conflict with someone. How did you resolve it and what did you learn?**](https://www.aced.io/questions/140/conflict-resolution-learning) — 40 answers; +2819 days ago. 5. [**Why do you want to switch jobs now?**](https://www.aced.io/questions/5459/reason-switch-jobs) — 15 answers; +9 a month ago. 6. [**Reverse a linked list.**](https://www.aced.io/questions/3247/reverse-linked-list) — 100 answers; +105 months ago. 7. [**Tell me about yourself.** — Has video answer](https://www.aced.io/questions/104/tell-me-about-yourself) — 134 answers; +1077 days ago. 8. [**Is this a valid palindrome?**](https://www.aced.io/questions/4056/validate-palindrome-check) — 118 answers; +67 months ago. 9. [**Implement LRU Cache.**](https://www.aced.io/questions/3625/lru-cache) — 47 answers; +285 days ago. 10. [**Tell me about your past projects.**](https://www.aced.io/questions/4229/past-projects) — 5 answers; +648 days ago. Use [See more questions](https://www.aced.io/questions?company=apple&role=swe&sortBy=hot) to browse the broader Apple software-engineering question set. 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