- An HR employee contacted me for an invitation for a phone interview.
- A Phone interview with two engineers, an Algorithmic question, and questions about Android like lifecycles, services and fragments.
- A two F2F interviews with two developers each, I answered 1 algorithmic question at each interview then Android questions that was easy for above average Android developers, and was asked business questions that needed a developer that can answer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Booking.com (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2014
Interview
Where to start? Everything about this interview was a red flag. The questions were all unix based and not even 1% relevant to mobile.
When you have web and backend developers in charge of the hiring process, then the monkeys have really taken over the zoo. The culture seems way behind. Narrow minded B grade developers thinking that there's only "1 right way" to do something.
Hire smart & open minded people instead of the below average gatekeepers who just want to get a steady paycheck and nothing more.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you write a unix command to search for a file in a tree structure?