Recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn to set up a screening call.

Informed that the process was:

• Screening
• Take-home project
• Live coding
• 3x1hr Final Round

Screening: Pretty normal call. Average pay for the role is around 260k USD TC.

Take-home project: Consume a given API and display the list of transactions. This is very open-ended to test your product sense. I created a dashboard with the given information, a list of transactions with searching/filtering, and a details page.

Live Coding Prep Call with Recruiter: Pretty uninformative. All the information from the emails was regurgitated to me, and the recruiter had no idea what the live coding round would be like, but they emphasized the need for completion of the task.

Live Coding: 60-minute interview. The task was to develop a 4x4 tic-tac-toe game with undo/reset functionality as a nice-to-have. The focus of the interview was on completion, not UI or clean code. I created the game with bad UI and pretty messy code (but good MVVM architecture) without the nice-to-have functionality and was rejected after this stage.

Overall, the engineers described a new mobile team that works like a start-up. They also described a pretty middle-of-the-road WLB with maybe a bit more emphasis on it being a bit worse than average.

Q: Create a 4x4 tic-tac-toe game.