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      Senior Android Developer Interview

      2 Jan 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Nov 2020

      Interview

      At first I had three easy algorithm tasks on codility. Then I had a one hour culture fit interview, 3 tech interviews - android knowledge, system architecture, problem solving. Testing, dependency injection, architecture patterns

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How to resolve a memory leak
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      Other Senior Android Developer interview reviews for Zalando

      Senior Android Developer Interview

      17 Dec 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando in Nov 2023

      Interview

      well i guess its okey to tell a candidate that she is a good fit for the job and then send a rejection letter to her after 3 weeks !! i interviewed for the position for zalando lounge application, i passed an online task which toke about 2 hours !! after that a smooth hiring manager interview who said that i was a great fit and should expect go to the next round, after 3 weeks i got a rejection letter. i did regret putting that much time in the online tests since they were really long questions!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1- we are given two strings S and T consisting of N and M characters , respectively, and you would like to check whether they might have been obtained as OCR scans of the same text. for example, both strings "A2Le" and "2pl1" could have been obtained as scans of the word "Apple" (but also as scans of the word "Ample"). Both strings "a10" and "10a" could have been obtained as scans of the word "abbbbbbbbba" (but also from many other strings of length 11, starting and ending with "a") . on the other hand, string "ba1" and "1Ad" could not have been obtained from the same text since the second letter of each text is different. so for "A2Le" and "2pL1" we return true. for "a10" and "10a" we return true. for "ba1" and "1Ad" we return false. for "3x2x" and "8" we return false. 2- we have a function like this in java : public String solution(String S) { } String S is consisting of letters A, B, C, D. the string can be transformed either by removing a letter A together with an adjacent letter B , or by removing letter C together with an adjacent letter D . the function should return any string that can be obtained from S by repeatedly applying the described transformation to the point that cannot be further transformed. example 1 : given "CBACD" the function may return "C" . because one of the possible sequence would be : "CBACD" -> "CBA" -> "C" example 2: given "CABABD" the function may return an empty string because one of the possible sequence would be : "CABABD" -> "CABD" -> "CD" -> "" example 3 : "ACBDACBD" the function returns "ACBDACBD" because no operation can be applied to string S . the length of string is within the range of [0 .. 250000] 3- we have a function like this in kotlin : fun solution(A: IntArray, B: IntArray, X: Int, Y: Int): Int { } A and B are intArrays contain values within 1 to 100. values of A and B are coordinations like this (x,y) and they have the same length. the X and Y make one coordination like (X,Y). now if (X,Y) are in the range of +20 or -20 of any of the values in A and B return the index of that pair. example 1 : A = [100, 200, 100] , B = [50,100,100] , X=100 , Y = 70 the answer is 0 . example 2: A = [100,200,100] , B = [50,100,100] , X=100 , Y = 100 the answer is 2 .
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      Zalando response
      2y
      Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review and bringing this to our attention. We’re sorry to hear that you felt disappointed by the interview process. We fully commit to providing a positive experience to our candidates by ensuring a smooth process, transparency, and valuable feedback from the beginning. This also involves reconciling the expectations of both sides. We have since shared your feedback within our Talent Acquisition Team who are investigating in order to drive improvement where needed. We wish you all the best in your next career step. - Talent Acquisition Team

      Senior Android Developer Interview

      7 Mar 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Jan 2023

      Interview

      I applied online and Interviewed at Zalando in Feb. 2023 for the Senior Android Position. Around 1 month to finish. I have searched about the Interview process and some questions that might be asked and was a bit ready. First Interview with the HR recruiter was good, some questions about soft skills and the challenges that I had in former companies. The second Interview with a team leader of one of the cross-functional teams (he was a Senior IOS engineer) was good and comfortable, talking about architecture and tools in mobile development and some challenges in implementing some features in the products list in Zalando app and I gave some ideas to improve the performance of the rendering the list and decrease the lag of loading. after that I had a 3-parts technical interview three days in a row and each one, 1hour : Coding (3rd round): two senior Android Developers interviewed me and we talked about some subjects in Android Dev. and after that they wanted me to write code in Codility and they said don't search on the Internet ask us and we will help you I wrote the code (with a little help for the syntax of the line of code) and compiled and passed the tests, then Interviewer add some boundary conditions and wanted to change the code, I had only 5min and I said where I wanted to change and explain orally. The System Design (4th round): I searched before the interview about the system design interviews and questions and I was completely ready, the interviewer asked me to explain my experience from the perspective of architecture and designing the app and wanted me to explain in which project started from scratch what did I do after that wanted me to explain about the clean architecture and decoupling in code after he wanted me to write a login app and he shared a Codility link, first I explained what I want to do (architecture and layers...)and I started to write and in 20-25 min I finished it except in one class I forgot the syntax of class that represents contravariance and he said to ignore this and I finished the code. General Tech (5th round): at this step talked about the clean code, and some tools that are common in Android dev. then the interviewer shared a link to google doc. and write some code and wanted to change it (related to coroutine and suspend function) I did it (with some interactions, help, and talking about the solutions) then he asked me about the testing and write a test and I did (I can't remember the verify syntax for mocking and he helped me) he asked me to write a RxJava code and asked a question related to Zip operator and I could not respond( I confused Zip with Flatmap and zip was out of my mind. ) he changed in code and changed the class to Activity and regarding the google doc format (plain text) I could not realize that the activity does not accept the entry params (very simple for every android developer and I said this is 100% for seeing this in a google doc and turning eyes not perfect) at end of the session I said since 1.5 years ago I did not use RX and I could review it again and get a mastery soon and he said that I belive you could. One week later the HR emailed me (on Sunday) we can't move forward with your application after I wanted to give more feedback, he set a meeting and read the feedback and he said in the Coding step you could not write and run the code (but I genuinely believed I did it ), in System-Design you were good but lower than the level we could accept and in General-Tech step you struggled with the google doc! he emphasized that you did not reject but you could not accept in this level. this was the whole process, I think for every developer Live-Coding is a bit challenging, and 3-step live coding with limited time and making decisions with this type of Strictness was not made sense. I have to mention that during the process, the interviewers behaved kindly and wanted me to feel free and relaxed.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1st round: soft skills not like other first HR interviews 2nd round: a technical interview that subject related to Mobile Development 3rd: Live coding challenge in codility 4th: system design in codility 5th: general tech in google doc
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      Zalando response
      3y
      Thank you for taking the time to provide valuable feedback on your candidate experience so far at Zalando; we always enjoy the opportunity to speak with candidates like yourself. Please be assured that we will share your insights with the responsible Talent Acquisition teams. - Talent Acquisition Team

      Senior Android Developer Interview

      8 Feb 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Jan 2021

      Interview

      The first interview was just screening with the recruiter, then interview with the hiring manager. the interviews were smooth; however, in the hiring manager interview the interviewer mentioned that I will be moving to the next stage; however, I got surprised that they rejected me which is totally fine; however, I asked for a feedback, and got no feedback. At least I should get a feedback to learn from this experience.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How you define that this person is a senior.
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      Zalando response
      3y
      Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review and bringing this to our attention. We’re sorry to hear that you felt disappointed by the interview process. We fully commit to providing a positive experience to our candidates by ensuring a smooth process, transparency, and valuable feedback from the beginning. We have since shared your feedback within our Talent Acquisition Team who are investigating in order to drive improvement where needed. We wish you all the best in your next career step. - Talent Acquisition Team