1. Phone screen

2. In Person Interview

First interviewer was the technology director. She asked a design question for a dispatch system for a delivery system. The question was pretty open-ended, so it was hard to gauge what she was looking for. Either way, she was polite and professional.

Second interviewer was a software engineer. He peppered me with questions about details of Java and the Android platform. Nothing deep – either I remembered the answer or I didn't.

Third interviewer was an engineer. He asked for an implementation of autocomplete on a phone keypad. The question wasn't difficult, but the engineer was a complete jerk and carried an awful attitude. He would jump all over me as I wrote out my solution on the board, without giving me a moment to step back and think/debug/edit.

Fourth interviewer was a project manager. She asked me a bunch of generic "what if" scenario questions.

1. Followup

Two days after the in-person interview, they sent me a programming assignment and asked me to complete it by the end of the week. The assignment was vague and lacking in details. Upon completion, it took them two more weeks of several emails from me to get them to decide to not move forward.

Thoughts:

Terrible experience. First of all, that power-tripping engineer asking questions had no idea what he was doing. Secondly, the way they dragged it out for three extra weeks was completely unnecessary. I'm pretty sure they didn't read my code and needlessly just made me jump through a hoop. The HR admin wasn't on top of things. I had to reach out several times for status.

Design a Delivery Dispatch System.

Implement autocomplete on a phone keypad.