Android Software Engineer Interview Questions

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Q: Why use truncate table instead of update statements? Q: Why are you using Robolectric and testing the SDK? Q: What architecture would you use, and why it isn't MVVM? Q: What is Service? Q: Have you use Retrofit before, why don't you use it for downloading bytes from arbitrary URLs?
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Software Engineer - Android

Interviewed at Gojek

4.1
Mar 15, 2022

Q: Why use truncate table instead of update statements? Q: Why are you using Robolectric and testing the SDK? Q: What architecture would you use, and why it isn't MVVM? Q: What is Service? Q: Have you use Retrofit before, why don't you use it for downloading bytes from arbitrary URLs?

DSA 1 - The problem asks to determine the final position of a robot after executing a series of "u" (up) and "D" (down) commands. The robot starts at a position, and moves one step up for each "u" command and one step down for each "D" command. The goal is to return "u" if the robot ends up above the starting position, "D" if it ends up below, and an empty string if it ends up at the starting position. DSA 2 / 3 / 4 were releated to graph and array.
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Senior Software Engineer - Android

Interviewed at Capital One

4.5
Aug 12, 2025

DSA 1 - The problem asks to determine the final position of a robot after executing a series of "u" (up) and "D" (down) commands. The robot starts at a position, and moves one step up for each "u" command and one step down for each "D" command. The goal is to return "u" if the robot ends up above the starting position, "D" if it ends up below, and an empty string if it ends up at the starting position. DSA 2 / 3 / 4 were releated to graph and array.

1) Tell me about a time you failed to complete a task 2) Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a team member, how did you solve it 3) How do you improve yourself 4) Which coworker do you get on with the most and how is your relationship with them 2) Design a system that fetches data from server and displays on the mobile app 3) Write an algorithm for sorting businesses according to their ratings.
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Android Software Engineer

Interviewed at Yelp

3.2
Jun 6, 2022

1) Tell me about a time you failed to complete a task 2) Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a team member, how did you solve it 3) How do you improve yourself 4) Which coworker do you get on with the most and how is your relationship with them 2) Design a system that fetches data from server and displays on the mobile app 3) Write an algorithm for sorting businesses according to their ratings.

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