The 33 questions for a job at Apple

A job at Apple is an elusive dream for many professionals as it is one of the leading companies internationally in its field.

So as one might assume, getting a job at Apple is just not easy. Like Google and other tech giants, Apple asks candidates for technical issues based on interviewees' experience as well as "puzzle" style questions.

TIME Magazine has compiled some of the most difficult questions a prospective employee has ever heard and presents them…

1. "Explain to an 8-year-old what a modem / router is and what it does."
2. "Who is your best friend?"
3. "If you have 2 eggs and you want to find out which is the highest floor you can lay an egg without breaking it, how would you do it? What is the best solution? "
4. "Describe an interesting problem and how you solve it"
5. "How many children are born every day?"
6. "You have 100 coins spread out on a table and each one has a crown side and one letter. 10 of them have the side of the crown and 90 of the letters above. You can not understand by touch, sight or in any other way which side is above. Divide the coins into two stacks so that there is the same number of crowns in each stack. "
7. "Describe yourself, what fascinates you?"
8. "If we hire you, what do you want to work on?"
9. "There are 3 boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges and one contains both apples and oranges. Do the boxes have incorrect labels so that no label describes the actual scope of the box in which it is placed? You only open one box and without looking inside, you only get one fruit. "Looking at the fruit, how can you place all the labels on the boxes correctly?"
10. Scenario: You face an angry customer who waits for help for 20 minutes and causes a disturbance. He claims that he will just get up to go to the "Best Buy" or a Microsoft Store to buy the computer he wants. Resolve the issue. "
11. "How would you analyze the cost of this pen?"
12. "A man comes up with an old computer that is actually a brick. What are you doing;"
13. "You are smart;"
14. "What failures did he have and how did you learn from them?"
15. "Have you ever disagreed with a manager's decision and how did you approach the disagreement? Give a specific example and explain how you mitigated the disagreement, what was the result and how this manager would describe you today ".
16. "You put a glass of water on a record player and gradually start to increase the speed. What happens first? Does the glass leave, fall or is the water thrown out? "
17. "Tell me something you have done in your life and you are very proud of it."
18. "Why should we hire you?"
19. "Are you creative? What can be creative and can you think? "
20. "Describe a moving experience."
21. "Which is more important, to solve a customer's problem or to create a good customer experience?"
22. "Why did Apple change its name from Apple Computers Incorporated to Apple Inc.?"
23. "You look like a very positive person, what things 'throw' at you?"
24. "Show me with a role play how you would show a client that you are willing to help them using only your voice."
25. "What brings you here today?"
26. "Think of an app like iTunes that downloads a lot of images that look stale over time. What strategy would you use to get rid of unused photos?"
27. "If you are given a jar containing 'normal' and 'copper' coins and you pull a coin and play 'crown-letters' 3 times and you get a certain sequence of crown and letters, what are the chances that you drew 'normal' or "Copper" coin? "
28. "What was your best day in the last 4 years? What was your worst? "
29. "When you walk into an Apple Store as a customer, what do you notice about the store / how did you feel the first time you walked in?"
30. "Why do you want to come to Apple and what will you miss from your current job if Apple overtakes you?"
31. "How would you test your favorite app?"
32. "What would you like to do in 5 years from today?"
33. "How would you test a toaster?"