I applied through a recruiter. The process took three weeks.

It was a total waste of time. I cleared all the rounds that the HR initially stated, and it went quite smoothly. All of a sudden, after my offer was being initiated, I got a call from another recruiter saying there was another director who wanted to interview me. They could've aligned me with him in the first place.

So another director round happened, and the interview was full of crap. There can be more than one correct answer to a design question; he expected something and he wanted that point. Unfortunately, I'm not Lord Voldemort to read one's mind! I can do the same if I interview the interviewer back. He asks a question revolving around handling the load of lists in a list view, and I start explaining how RecyclerView loads items and why it's more performant. The interviewer says it's an all-solved problem in the industry and he doesn't want to hear it. Then why the hell did he ask the question in the first place?!

There were all easy Android questions, along with an assignment where we had to fetch and display some content based on a query. There were algorithm questions on finding the first non-repeating element in an array and the middle element of a LinkedList. There were also system design questions on designing a payment application, a chess game, and WhatsApp.