Appeared for a Staff Android Design Engineer

Round 1: Hiring Manager Round

• Questions on Previous experiences..
• Deep dive into current work
• View on GenAi, future of mobile
• Reason looking out for Change

Round 2: Android Questions
This had a mix of question on basics of Android and some snippets were given, was asked to identify possible faults and errors

• Deeop Dive into RecyclerView internals, Layout Managers
• Garbage Collector and impact on main thread
• Custom View and Overdraw concepts
• Avoiding Jank and Lags, Profiler, Memory Leaks
• Coroutine Concepts
• Fragment Transcations, concurrency and questions related to lifecycleScope and Lifecycle owner..

Team I interviewed with used traditional XML views question were majorly focussed in that area

Result: Rejection in Round 2