Senior Android Developer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
First round was with the Hiring Manager who reached out to me. The second round was an online coding session with the developers in the team, which went well.
They called me for an onsite with 5 rounds. All interviews went well; I was able to solve their questions in the way they wanted.
I want to highlight the last round, which was an Android coding round. They asked me to code an Android activity with a RecyclerView that had to be populated with images from an API. While I started coding, the lady interviewer started laughing, which made me a little nervous, and I started wondering if I had made any silly mistake in the code.
In a while, she burst into laughter, which became uncontrollable for her, and she had to leave the room for some time to get back to a normal condition. The second interviewer tried to control himself and was laughing sometimes with her. This whole process made me very nervous.
Next day, the recruiter reached out to me, asking my expectations and also if I had any feedback for the interview process.
A week passed, and I reached out to them to ask about the feedback. The Hiring Manager scheduled another interview, saying that he was unable to meet me during the onsite.
I was a little surprised because I had already met five people, and there was no discussion scheduled with him.
He scheduled the interview for the next day and started asking the same questions he asked during the first conversation I had with him, ending by saying that they would get back to me after a week.
After a week, I reached out to them again for the feedback, and they declined, saying that they found a better match. They didn't even bother to update me by themselves.
One mistake I made was not sharing my Android coding experience with the recruiter or the Hiring Manager.
Also, when asked about the future plans and growth of the company, everyone, including the Hiring Manager, had the same answer: "Changing the architecture of the app to Uber's RIB design." There were no upcoming projects or features in the pipeline.
A piece of advice to the company: Please respect candidates' time and please allow those people in the interview panel who can respect the seriousness of the interview and not burst into laughter.
Questions
Implement a dictionary
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Life360 Senior Android Developer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Life360's interview process for their Senior Android Developer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Life360's Senior Android Developer interview process in San Francisco, California.
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