I applied online.

First round was a brief half an hour round involving basic android and Kotlin questions. It was a breeze. Then I was given an assignment where I had to design a simple app using one of the GitHub APIs. I reverted with the solution in 3 business days. After that there was more than a week's gap in any kind of communication from them. I called them myself after 6 to 7 days inquiring about any updates. The recruiter informed me that due to COVID-19, some of the panels were unavailable, so there are delays. It is understandable to delay, but I would have liked some communication after my last interview just in case.

The second round was a discussion round about the app I had made for the assignment. There were a lot of cross-questions regarding why I chose to do things like dependency injection using Dagger and more. There were a couple of things they pointed out that I missed, like calling cleanup function in my RxJava code. I had adhered to strict MVVM clean architecture, and they called that out, saying such a rigid architecture consumes more developer time. The overall vibe that I got from the interview was that they wanted to speed up the coding process at the cost of architecture and future scalability. Two days later I got a two-line rejection email without any feedback. I would have liked to know what they found lacking in me.

• What is a composite disposable?
• Why use a computation thread?