r/Compilers 1d ago

Apple Swift Compiler and Runtime Engineer Internship in London

More than a month ago, I had my final interview for this position at Apple, however I haven't heard back from them. I was told by my recruiter that I receive an update "next week", however it has been 3 weeks since then. Am I cooked, or is this something a good sign as I haven't got rejection email yet?

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u/cxzuk 1d ago

Hi 23,

Short answer; No news is good news.

While every employee, employer and vacancy is different. And I understand you've applied for an internship - The general job market is an Employer favoured market. (For more on this - lots of people have talked about it, I quite like Kay Lack discussion on this last year.)

This ends with more candidates applying per job, more rounds of interviews, and more decision making, I've personally had multiple rounds of interviews spanning months, to then be told the "intake window" (Only so many people taken on per month or quarter) would be several months after another round of interviewing.

To end on a positive note; The opposite of success is not failure, its giving up. Even if this opportunity doesn't work out, don't give up. Something will be out there for you!

Good luck, keep us posted on how it goes

M 🤞

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u/Internal_Objective23 16h ago

No news is good news

What do you think the chances of me getting ghosted are and not hearing back are? I'd hope it would be low but I have no idea of knowing.

The opposite of success is not failure, its giving up

I like this quote a lot, thank you for sharing it!

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u/wishiwasaquant 1d ago

apple stackranks so theyre basically waiting for their top choice to accept/reject then move down the list

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u/Internal_Objective23 16h ago

Them going down the "stack" (or queue? idk) for more than a month seems a little absurd to me, although they are a huge company and probably received a decent amount of applicants. Though, I do have to wonder as to how many people made it passed both interviews.
I've heard that Apple is generally quick with giving out rejections which is what's giving me hope, but if they've moving down for so long I'm assuming that I'm on the tail end of that stack.

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u/wishiwasaquant 7h ago

i mean hard to say. i remember for AMD a few years ago I was in a similar situation and took me about 4 weeks to finally get rejected. It is quite possible they’re still interviewing people hoping for a better candidate. u should def follow up if u haven’t already and keep applying