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      Senior Android Engineer Interview

      24 May 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

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      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bolt

      Interview

      First interview was with a recruiter who did a great job of creating interest in the role and company and did basic assessment of my background. Second round started with an office tour and then I was interviewed for two hours by two Android engineers, which was a fairly negative experience - not because there was anything wrong with the company or interviewers, but I felt like the questions were more about showing who had the most arcane knowledge, rather than asking anything you can evaluate. I was asked questions on data structures and then given a coding challenge (which seems to have been to assess system design, nothing algorithmic) Their questions did a great job at showing what they knew (their generic data structure knowledge was impressive) but also showed gaps in some important android knowledge (eg. how memory and the gc algorithm works, which thread services run in, that there is a difference between process and thread) and in how kotlin bytecode is generated and uses static structures (both developers work in kotlin). I only mention these gaps as the interviewers seemed to doubt or reject some of my answers based on this. I felt like only a couple of their questions did much to probe what I actually knew

      Interview questions [10]

      Question 1

      Which is better MVVM or MVP
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Do you not like Kotlin (because I have not worked with it)
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      How does a HashSet work
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      What components does Android have
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      What differences are there in Activities and Fragments, what happens when you rotate the screen. What is retain instance, what happens when restoring state
      Answer question

      Question 6

      What android data structures have you used, why are they better
      1 Answer

      Question 7

      How can you avoid memory leaks with an AsyncTask
      1 Answer

      Question 8

      What does the synchronized keyword do
      1 Answer

      Question 9

      After the coding sample: In an ideal world what would you improve
      Answer question

      Question 10

      After the coding sample: Why did you pass a WeakReference in, you can pass a context then wrap it inside the task
      1 Answer
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