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Senior Android Engineer Interview Experience - United States

September 24, 2025
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I'm only dumping this here because they ghosted me after the final round of interviews. They couldn't even be bothered to send me a rejection letter after 7 hours of interviews and another 10+ hours of prep.

screening call, 15 mins hiring manager call, 30 min four technical rounds (50-60 mins each):

  • Coding exercise: Pairing in CoderPad. Given a partially complete Android Studio project, run it locally and screen share with the interviewer. Pick from Java/Kotlin/Compose modules to start. They provide a list of dependencies to work with (navigation, Dagger, Retrofit, Room, Material, Coil, RxJava, Flows, Coroutines). Implement a "listing" app similar to AirBnB. They provide a screenshot of what they want you to build. The "networking layer" is already complete, and empty "screens" are available. You need to access the service layer from the UI layer, display a single listing (four text fields and a photo), and a button that navigates to another screen. Handle "slow network" loading and fake "network errors". After the first round, you get to pick from four "add on" features: display a carousel of images on a second screen, implement some sort of data persistence, make the whole thing "better from an accessibility standpoint," or another feature I forgot.

  • Android system architecture Digital whiteboard through a hypothetical Android project. A list of requirements is provided.

  • Behavioral

  • "Bug quest": Find and fix as many bugs as possible.

one non-technical "core values" interview, 45 minutes hiring committee 30 min chat with director

Questions

Lots of standard behavioral questions.

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