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      Junior Android Developer Interview

      18 Aug 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Emeryville, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at ZapLabs (Emeryville, CA) in Aug 2017

      Interview

      Got an email from a recruiter to set up a screen call. The call was about 20-30 minutes. He told me about the role and asked me basic Android questions. Then he gave me a very basic Android assignment which includes loading photos from fake servers to list view. And told me he wants to bring me onsite for an interview. However, I got an email couple days later that we have to do skype interview. The skype interview included Android and Java fundamentals. (OOP, Threads, Android life cycle, views, layouts, design pattern, 3rd party libraries like retrofit, rxjava, Picasso). He was nice enough to tell me he would like to set up a final interview. The next interview (Not final by the way) was also skype which included same Android and Java fundamentals. And one coding problem (return the first non-repeating integer from an array). She told me that she would like to move forward with my interview. Then for two weeks no replies. I followed up three times but never heard back. Then after two weeks, I got an email from the recruiter that they would like me to bring onsite. The onsite consisted of 4 30-40 minutes interview. 1,2 interviews were the same as the skype one done by the same people. With couple coding problem (is integer a palindrome, two sum algorithm, followed by three sum algorithm.) 3rd interview was with Java backend developers who had no idea what to ask me. They asked me some scalability problem which they didn't know the answer to. 4th was with product manager which was personal/behavior type of interview. I got reply the next day that team found me unfit even though I answered all the questions right. Overall the process was bad. After the screening, the recruiter said he would like to bring me on site but then I had to do two skype interviews. Then didn't hear back from them for two weeks. The assignment was never brought up after I submitted. I think they didn't even open it. because they had no idea when I told them about it.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Java and Android fundamentals: OOP, Threads, Android design, layout, views, view groups. is integer a palindrome, two sum algorithm, followed by three sum algorithm.
      Answer question
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      Other Junior Android Developer interview reviews for ZapLabs

      Junior Android Developer Interview

      19 Jul 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Emeryville, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at ZapLabs (Emeryville, CA) in Jul 2017

      Interview

      Interview Process: HR phone call (5 mins) -> Take-home Android project (~3-4 hours) -> Technical Phone Interview with Lead Android Dev (1 hour) -> On-site interview (3 hours, 4 rounds with 7 people in total) The HR phone call only lasted for 5 minutes instead of the typical 15-30 because the interviewer was currently driving and had to cut the conversation short. I mostly talked about my background and was told that ZapLabs liked my resume and was willing to bring me directly to on-site after completing a small task of building a simple Android project, which would be used for the future interviews. A few days after sending in the project, I then get an email requesting a technical phone interview, which seemed strange considering that I was told that I'd be going straight to on-site. Technical phone interview involved no coding at all but mostly discussing Java and Android concepts and my experience with popular libraries like Retrofit and RxJava. The on-site interview then consisted of four rounds of mostly discussing my resume and completing a few coding problems. Each round consisted of 1-2 people from different teams, not just the Android team. After completing the interviews, I was then walked out and told that I'd get a response within 48 hours, but unfortunately never got one. I sent a follow-up email and was told that HR was still waiting for feedback and a response from the team, so they were no longer pursuing my application. At that point, I wasn't sure if he was rejecting me or if the team was. Overall, the interview process was very messy and it seemed like there was a lot of miscommunication. HR told me I'd go to on-site but was given a technical phone interview instead. The take-home project I completed was supposed to be used for discussions during the on-site interviews but was never brought up besides for "screening purposes".

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Create a simple Android app that retrieves data from a fake online REST API and display the results in a list. Each list item will have an image and text.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Given an integer array with duplicates, remove the duplicates from the array and return a new array.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Given a string, determine if it's a palindrome. Follow-up: Determine if a string is a palindrome if you can remove one letter from the string.
      Answer question

      Junior Android Developer Interview

      20 Jun 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at ZapLabs (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      Applied online. Was asked to submit my availability on calendly. Did so, and when interview time came I had something come up and asked for the recruiter to call back in five minutes. However, he rudely declined to call me back. Afterwards, I managed to get the recruiter on the phone again and he told me "show more enthusiasm" even though I had not even talked about the company or myself yet and "we have like 800 candidates for this job." I guess they can afford to be rude to candidates.
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