1. Recruiter introduction chat. (30 min) Recruiter was very helpful and friendly.

2. Virtual Phone screening Interview (1h) LeetCode Easy/Medium coding & algorithm problem. Interviewer was very helpful throughout the process.

3. On-site Interview:

• Walk-in with recruiter (15 mins)

• Just a simple walkthrough of what the day holds.
• Open to any questions from you.

• Coding (in-depth Android) (1 hour)

• You are given a sample project .zip file. Open it in Android Studio and add a feature to it.
• Given a REST call with cities/countries, populate a RecyclerView to match a given design.
• In this round where I thought I would perform perfectly, I performed the poorest. Reasoning: The sample project was terribly coded (no architecture whatsoever). REST calls were all mocked, but somehow you had to use the most 'efficient' function from a bloated class with methods. Forget about writing clean code in this given project. Tip: Don't spend time on quality, just get the task done. This round was very poorly planned. They should have either shared the sample project a day or two prior to the interview, or just created a new, decent sample project. (Some of the practices used have not been used in more than 5 years)

• HM chat (1 hour)

• Behavioral questions.
• Past experience.
• Examples of past projects.
• Most difficult task.
• How have you dealt with a difficult coworker?
• Any improvements you've made to the DevOps process in your team?

• Break (1 hour)

• Design and Architecture (1 hour)

• 30 mins, talk about designing a project that you're familiar with (preferably one that you have contributed to).
• 30 mins, interviewer gives you a new problem to design and architect. Tip: This was an okay round. Just watch YouTube videos regarding "Design and Architecture Interview."

• Coding round (algorithms & data structures)

• Similar to the virtual phone screen round.
• LeetCode Easy/Medium coding & algorithm problem.
• I wonder why they duplicated these rounds. A full 6-hour long interview session is too long. They could have just omitted this round, since it was already assessed in the phone-screen interview.

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