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      Android Engineer Interview

      Jul 3, 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dallas, TX
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Photon (Dallas, TX) in Jul 2023

      Interview

      Applied online and got a call from a recruiter. In the next step, we have to book a slot to write a test by joining a recorded test involving MCQs related to Android and Kotlin concepts. The next step is an interview with a senior Android engineer. I have applied for a 2-3 year experienced role, but in the final scheduled interview mail, it showed 6+ years of experience. Not sure if the mistake was with the recruiter or interviewer. Maybe I should have highlighted about it The project I was interviewed for was with the Citi bank client (so some questions related to security). The interviewer's tone was a little rude, felt unwelcomed somehow.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Questions related to experience. started with basic questions related to Kotlin and Android for 5-6 minutes and moved to some senior-level stuff related to the profiler, debugging and some Multithreading concepts. MVP, MVVM, Java, Kotlin basics, Android basics. explain your experience with git OOP properties lifecycles explain Scrum / Agile SOAP vs REST types of layouts your experience with implementing animations ArrayList vs vector experience with various libraries used in Android dev - Retrofit, dagger, Gson, glide, okhttp how do you stay up to date with the latest Android concepts or updates what is concurrency explain your experience of dealing with concurrency concurrency vs parallelism explain your experience with multithreading in Android what is a unit test and explain your experience with writing tests What are Android architecture components, elaborate HTTP status codes string builder vs string buffer what is serialization hashtable vs hashmap what does it mean by thread-safe how do you implement caching types of data storage in android did you have any experience with security concepts in Android? did you work with any design patterns? what are they? explain differences what is the difference between sp and dp some questions on SQLite
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