Applied directly on Comcast's job portal website and submitted my CV through there.

Contacted by a recruiter about a week after submitting my application with an email to set up a time to talk more about the role. Discussed the title, my experience, salary expectations, benefits, and what the coding interview portion would entail. Comcast was competitive in compensation when compared to the other traditional engineering companies I was interviewing with during that time.

The recruiter was responsive until I was told they would get back to me after completing their Android app.

Reached out twice in the past three weeks to the same recruiter with no response. When I finally heard back from their internal recruiter, I was told they were so sorry the team had taken this long to get back to me.

Finally, I received an auto-generated response letting me know they had reviewed my resume and I was not qualified, despite already having a recruiter contact me to talk over my resume and give me the interview challenge for the position. What is going on over at their Talent Acquisition?

No code review from the team, either. Disappointing given the amount of time candidates need to spend when completing these assignments.

The coding portion is a take-home assignment. Build an Android app in Kotlin using MVP/MVI architecture, communicating with an API (DuckDuckGo) to show a list of characters from both The Wire and The Simpsons. Include a detail view when tapping on a character and search to filter characters by name/description. Third-party libraries are fine.

The most difficult part of the app was probably creating a POGO wrapper to get all the data from the API and parsing through it (DuckDuckGo's API for search). Apart from that, it was a fairly straightforward test.