I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Tubi in Dec 2025
Difficult interview
Application
I interviewed at Tubi
Interview
very round of interview will do code implementation, and the interviewer is very nice and helpful to make sure you understand the questions and you can ask any questions about the company as you want
Pretty standard process that consists of several rounds, here the basic break down:
1. Recruiter call
2. Technical screen - 1 coding challenge
3. Technical - 2 coding challenges
4. Technical - System Design
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The iOS coding challenge (implement in SwiftUI or UIKit):
Create a grid that has over 100 tiles in one screen (No need scrollable)
1. The grid should be arranged so it has 6 columns.
2. The tiles should be square.
3. Randomly select a background color for each tile choosing either white or blue.
When tapping ONLY on WHITE tiles, they should turn blue, and at the same time update the background color of every surrounding WHITE tile to blue (ABOVE, BELOW, RIGHT, and LEFT directions ONLY).
For every white tile that turns to blue we will continue to update the background of the nearby white cells and so on until there are no cells to update. Making this an updating effect that begins with just one tap.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tubi in Jan 2022
Interview
Standard HR recruiter screen followed by technical screen with engineers from the team. Recruiter screen by phone, technical screen via video call. Recruiter seemed more enthusiastic than technical interviewers, who were fairly quiet during technical problem.
Technical screen consisted of implementing functionality on a toy app. The responsibilities of this app tested both iOS development knowledge and a common algorithm problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a skeleton project, how would you implement a grid view with X behavior?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Tubi in Oct 2021
Interview
Going through a recruiter, this went straight from talking to the recruiter into a technical interview. The recruiter vetted me for being a technical fit. One of my cultural questions includes explicitly asking if the interviewee would be performing data structure & algorithm questions using a tool such as leetcode, HackerRank, etc, or in general. I was explicitly informed that the technical interview would only reflect day to day activity and be a real world mobile project exercise.
Jumping into the interview, a woman jumped on the call. I couldn't quite tell if I was in the correct call or waiting on someone else as she was dressed unprofessionally and frankly not that presentable in any professional environment/manner to the point where it caught me off guard. Her attitude was extraordinarily dry/bland to the point of discomfort.
When it was understood that she was performing the interview, she started to kick off the project. Introducing myself, I attempted to verify this was not a data structure and algorithm interview and she acknowledged it wasn't. Then she proceeded to tell me to open up Xcode and provided me instructions. The instructions had me writing an application with an optimized modified form of the Fibonacci sequence calculations. At this point, I didn't know what to say because I validated and expressed that this would not be a culture fit for me if presented with this type of Q&A. Clearly, the interviewee didn't understand what a "data structure & algorithm" interview meant. Ultimately, I expressed my concerns and discomfort, and she worked with me to move past this portion of the interview.
Ultimately, it was an unsettling aura from her professionalism, tone, and the sheer poor communication going into the interview of expectations. It was clearly not a "culture fit".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview mainly wanted to do a test project of a modified Fibonacci sequence algorithm.
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