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      Mobile Developer - IOS Interview

      1 Dec 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Skyscanner (London, England) in Oct 2017

      Interview

      I applied online and after a week I received an email from the HR department saying that in order to progress with the application I had to do a coding challenge. It was to write an iOS app in Objective-C (no option of using Swift) where I had to implement the Skyscanner's search screen using their flight search APIs. They give you up to a week but it's a long task. Passing that stage I had a 1 hour phone interview with an HR employee about my previous experience and different soft skills related questions. The next round was a 1 hour video interview with a web engineer. Here he asked questions that had nothing to do with mobile development. Things like tell me the whole process that happens after entering a URL in the browser to seeing the website rendered. 🤨 I had 4.5/5 points in the coding challenge and I had the feeling both interviews went well (as I was able to reply to every question thanks to previous feedback on Glassdoor) but I got rejected. I asked for feedback on what went wrong as I was surprised but they didn't reply. There was supposed to be a fourth step. The worst is that the process takes really long, it's very time consuming and you are asked questions that have nothing to do with mobile development.

      Interview questions [9]

      Question 1

      Tell me the whole process that happens after entering a URL in the browser to seeing the website rendered.
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      Question 2

      How does the client know how to reach a server using a URL?
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      Question 3

      What is a cookie and how one is generated?
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      Question 4

      What other HTTP Methods apart from GET are there?
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      Question 5

      From an array of strings return the amount of repeated strings and what is the complexity.
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      Question 6

      Tell me what was the biggest bug you shipped and what it meant for the user and the company
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      Question 7

      Tell me about a time when you took the blame for something that didn’t go right and how did your boss reacted.
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      Question 8

      What is the most important aspect you brought to your team?
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      Question 9

      What mobile technologies do you know? (I asked what does he mean by technologies, if languages, platforms, dev tools, native frameworks, … he said “everything”).
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