Apple Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

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Machine Learning Engineer

Explain annotation agreement and LLM vs human judges

Annotation Agreement and LLM-vs-Human Judges Context You are on a model-evaluation team. Datasets are labeled, and model outputs are scored, by humans...

Machine Learning
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162 people solved
Aug 13, 2025
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Apple
Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Design an ML keyword recommendation pipeline

Design an ML keyword recommendation pipeline ML System Design: Typed Search Keyword Recommendations for an App Marketplace Goal Design an end-to-end M...

ML System Design
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108 people solved
Jul 26, 2025
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Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Describe recent project experiences

Describe recent project experiences Behavioral: Walk Through Two Recent ML Projects Context: Technical screen for a Machine Learning Engineer. Focus o...

Behavioral & Leadership
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74 people solved
Jul 26, 2025
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Medium
Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Debug a PyTorch U-Net shape mismatch

This question evaluates proficiency in PyTorch model implementation, convolutional output shape arithmetic, channel configuration, and debugging of U-...

Coding & Algorithms
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150 people solved
Mar 1, 2026
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Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Design App Store search

Design the search system for a mobile app marketplace similar to an app store. Users enter short queries such as 'photo editor', 'budget tracker', or ...

ML System Design
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56 people solved
Dec 17, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Implement bag-of-words similarity search from scratch

Implement a bag-of-words–based text similarity search engine from scratch. Write code that: ( 1) tokenizes text (lowercasing, punctuation handling, Un...

Coding & Algorithms
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131 people solved
Aug 13, 2025
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Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Wrap Matching Substrings in Bold Tags

During a machine learning engineer phone screen, the coding task was: You are given a string text and a list of strings patterns. Return a new string ...

Coding & Algorithms
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54 people solved
Mar 16, 2026
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Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Implement Kubernetes Service Dependency Queries

You are given an in-memory inventory of Kubernetes-like services. Each service has the following fields: `text Service { id: string // ...

Coding & Algorithms
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4 people solved
Feb 13, 2026
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Apple
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Solve stock and banana problems

Solve both coding problems below. 1. Maximum single-transaction stock profit: Given an array prices where prices[i] is the stock price on day i, retur...

Coding & Algorithms
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42 people solved
Dec 17, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Machine Learning EngineerNew Grad

Write a generator for substring pattern matches

Problem Write a generator that scans a string and emits a value whenever a substring matches a given pattern. Input - A string s - A string pattern (n...

Coding & Algorithms
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125 people solved
Dec 15, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Machine Learning EngineerNew Grad

Implement TF-IDF scoring for documents

Problem Implement a simplified TF–IDF scorer. You are given: - A list of documents docs, where each document is a string. - A query string q. Tokeniza...

Coding & Algorithms
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71 people solved
Dec 15, 2025
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Apple
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Rotate a Matrix In Place

Given an n x n matrix of integers, rotate the matrix 90 degrees clockwise. Implement the function in Python. You may use a straightforward approach wi...

Coding & Algorithms
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8 people solved
Nov 11, 2025

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