Apple System Design Interview Questions

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Software Engineer

Design a Distributed Token-Bucket Rate Limiter

Design a distributed rate limiter using token buckets. Each user or API key has a bucket with a fixed capacity. Tokens refill at a configured rate, an...

System Design
1
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13 people solved
Aug 9, 2026
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Apple
Medium
Software Engineer

Design Cloud Photo Storage and Multi-Device Sync

Design a cloud photo-storage service with upload, download, and multi-device synchronization. Store photo bytes separately from searchable metadata. S...

System Design
1
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11 people solved
Aug 9, 2026
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Apple
Medium
Software Engineer

Design a Centralized Logging System

Design a Centralized Logging System Design a system that collects application logs from a large fleet of microservice instances and makes them durable...

System Design
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387 people solved
Jun 30, 2026
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Apple
Medium
Software Engineer

Object-Oriented Design: Hotel Room Booking System

Object-Oriented Design: Hotel Room Booking System Design the object model and core service for a hotel room booking system. The service must let a cli...

System Design
9
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122 people solved
Jun 30, 2026
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Apple
Easy
Software EngineerSenior+

Design APIs for a Voting System

Design APIs for a Voting System Design the APIs and core data model for a voting system. Begin by clarifying the type of vote: identified or anonymous...

System Design
2
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33 people solved
May 3, 2026
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Apple
Hard
Software EngineerNew Grad Locked

Design a smartwatch sensor subsystem

This question evaluates system-level engineering skills for designing a smartwatch sensing subsystem, including sensor selection, trade-offs among acc...

System Design
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189 people solved
Feb 25, 2026
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Apple
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Design CI/CD for AI Services

Design a CI/CD platform for a large AI product organization. The platform must support backend services, model-serving APIs, data and feature pipeline...

System Design
9
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127 people solved
Feb 13, 2026
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Apple
Medium
Machine Learning EngineerNew Grad

Design a multimodal RAG assistant

Prompt Design a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that can answer user questions using an internal knowledge base containing multiple modali...

System Design
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174 people solved
Dec 15, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Design ad click aggregator and file sync service

This question evaluates system design competencies in building scalable, reliable distributed services—covering high-throughput event ingestion and ag...

System Design
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255 people solved
Jan 22, 2026
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Apple
Hard
Software Engineer

Implement a robust REST API method

Implement a robust REST API method Design and implement a REST API method to create a resource with idempotency Context You are building a create endp...

System Design
23
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181 people solved
Jul 15, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Design Apple News without ML

Design an initial search and content-discovery system for a news application similar to Apple News, assuming you do not have a trained ranking model y...

System Design
9
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86 people solved
Dec 17, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Software Engineer

Implement a robust socket message reader

Implement Message Framing Readers for TCP Sockets Context You are given a TCP socket. Each call to recv(k) may return any number of bytes up to k; in ...

System Design
6
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118 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Data Engineer Locked

Design TikTok Data Engineering Systems

This question evaluates data engineering competencies including scalable streaming ingestion, processing orchestration, data partitioning and failure ...

System Design
10
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75 people solved
Jan 30, 2026
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Apple
Hard
Software Engineer

Design and scale a Yelp-like platform

System Design: Yelp-like Local-Business Reviews Platform + URL Shortener You are designing two systems: 1) A Yelp-like local-business reviews platform...

System Design
8
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107 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Design Disk-Based Inventory Serving

Design software for a machine that has no SSD storage and only a small amount of RAM. The machine must service inventory requests using spinning disks...

System Design
7
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50 people solved
Oct 28, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Scale Digit-Square Convergence Requests

Design a service that receives very high request volume for the digit-square convergence operation. For each request, the input is a positive integer ...

System Design
3
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34 people solved
Oct 28, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Design an Accurate Click Aggregator

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design reliable, high-throughput event processing and analytics systems, emphasizing data modeling, i...

System Design
9
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78 people solved
Dec 22, 2025
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Apple
Hard
Software Engineer

Design video platform and catalog system

System Design: Two Independent Systems You are asked to design two large-scale systems. For each system, provide: - Scope and key requirements - Exter...

System Design
9
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121 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Apple
Hard
Software Engineer

Migrate a monolithic wallet to microservices

System Design: Migrating a Monolithic Digital Wallet (Apple Cash–like) to Microservices Context You operate a high-scale consumer digital wallet and p...

System Design
6
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86 people solved
Sep 6, 2025

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