Education: B.S. in CS Spring 2022 (New Grad)
Years of Experience: 0
Prior Experience: Apple Store sales specialist part-time while in college, quit a year before to finish studies and graduate. Only job previously was Starbucks as a part-time barista out of high school.
For fresh grad, any related Internship/coop experience? No internships or anything else
For experienced engineer, what's your current and past experience? n/a
Date of the Offer: 11/9/22
Company: Apple
Title/Level: ICT 2 Junior Software QA Engineer
Location: Cupertino, CA
Salary: 125k base salary (hourly with overtime)
Relocation/Signing Bonus: 25k
Stock bonus: 50k vesting over 4 years
Bonus: n/a
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 200k
Benefits: the standard Apple benefits and discounts. They didn't go over but Apple Retail has similar ones
Other details: My only other experience on the resume was 2 group school projects for different courses the spring I graduated. I was referred by someone on the team and managed to get in. It seems this group was unaffected by the hiring freeze. The role is a half manual/ half automation QA.