The interview process started with the recruiter/screener that had reached out to me on LinkedIn. Unlike most screening interviews, this one included rapid-fire technical questions which was fine, but kind of took me by surprise since most recruiters don’t get into the technical stuff so much. I guess I did well enough to make it to the next round.
The second round was a live-coding (in Android Studio) round. I did not get a great vibe during this round (didn't seem very friendly), but at least it was in Android rather than in HackerRank or something similar. By the end of this round I was starting to form a negative opinion of the company/people working there. I made it past this round and onto the last stage.
Last came what they call a "virtual onsite" round which was scheduled for 5 hours which seemed kind of extreme. It started with a cross-functional/behavioral round, then an engineering manager round, then a system design round, and finally another live-coding in Android Studio round. I enjoyed the cross-functional round and I was starting to rethink my earlier hesitations about the company after this round. The engineering manager round wasn't quite as pleasant, but it wasn't awful either. The system design round went well enough and I found the interviewer to be patient and helpful in that round. Then finally another live-coding Android Studio round. This is where I fumbled. This round completely turned me off from the job. At one point I was asked if I had ever used Jetpack Compose (been using it for years) which I found to be very rude. There was just an air of smugness and condescending on display in this round that you try and avoid when picking your next landing spot.