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Software Engineer Android Interview Experience - Canada

December 1, 2018

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Quick introductions.

The interviewer asked, "What would be your approach for an API call with low reception?"

Additionally, if you update a TextView with a background API call, would it be thread-safe or not?

Questions

There are two series. One is the input, and the other is the sort order.

Input: "abc145bac" Order string: "abc"

Sort the input based on the order in "order_str".

Example: Input: "abc145bac" Order string: "abc"

Expected result: "aabbcc145"

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