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Senior Android Engineer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

August 1, 2023
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online. The process took two weeks.

There is a code test which involves inheriting a codebase full of bugs and issues to fix. It includes a design spec. You have two hours to fix bugs and implement a feature, nowhere near enough time to get anything done. I checkpointed my work at two hours and wrote out my rationale in the README, but continued to work on the project after that to finish implementing a feature.

During the interview to go over the code test, the interviewer was not happy in the slightest that I went over the two-hour time limit, even though I mentioned I'd checkpointed the commit in the README, and described all my decisions along with it up until that point. I had to explain twice that I wanted to show them the full feature implementation, as I had spent the two-hour time limit fixing bugs and improving the codebase.

I also noticed that the interviewer really did not want to be there, which felt quite anti-climactic to me for a company that I had admired as a customer for years. I was not given any feedback.

Questions

The questions included the internal behaviour of RecyclerView LayoutManagers and architectural questions. There were also questions such as: "What should your tests include?", "What would you do if you only had 10 hours to ship the whole product?", and "If you were a product manager, what should go into an MVP?"

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