In the first step, I had a coding challenge. It was a pretty good experience to work with. I wrote unit tests, separated my project using different libraries, and invested two weekends on it.

After I sent it, I received very nice feedback, including suggestions for improvement. I was approved for the next step, which was a technical interview.

This was a really bad experience, and I started feeling that it might not be a good place to work. The interviewers asked some questions about software development; some were interesting, while others were completely random, answerable by simply looking at the documentation or source code.

I doubt anyone can know every minimum detail about the Android or iOS frameworks. However, they at least tried to help me.

They didn't ask me any questions related to work behavior or good experiences I'd had. Everything was related purely to knowledge of every minimum technical detail. After the interview finished, I felt like a novice who had just started working in software development, even though I had performed well on my coding challenge.

Questions about concurrency, collections, database structure, view rendering, etc. …