Started with a HireVue interview, no technical questions, just 5 prompts related to my experience and the role. Next was a 1 hour panel that was half behavioral, half technical, mostly around Android, Kotlin, and Jetpack Compose. The final round was a live coding project. I prepared thoroughly for it for 4 days, especially since the invite clearly stated I’d need to parse information from an API. This is something I’ve done in interviews and real-world projects several times before but I wanted to be able to explain every piece of the project in detail. However, during the interview, I was unexpectedly given hardcoded JSON data pasted into the chat instead of an actual API. This threw me off, as parsing hardcoded data in Android isn’t something I’ve encountered before. I've done several live Android projects parsing an API and moved to the next round of interviews so this wasn't typical for me. Because of that mismatch, I didn’t feel like I had a fair opportunity to showcase my full skill set especially in Compose, MVVM architecture, or real application practices. The interviewers were friendly, but I left the process feeling confused and honestly a bit misled. I wouldn’t interview with the company again because of the disconnect between what was communicated and what was tested.