At Linkedin, I’ve noticed that our Android headcount takes the longest to fill at multiple teams. There’s just way less qualified applicants than other roles. Even at new hire bootcamps, Android has the least amount of students . Is this the case at other tech companies as well? I’m curious as to why this is. #android #ios #google #meta #linkedin #netflix
I recently got an offer from LinkedIn android role but got leveled to senior software title. Didn’t end up taking. Happened same thing to a friend also not ended up taking. If one is clearing LinkedIn, most likely they can clear other interviews, and no one wants to down level
You interviewed for staff?
yup. Linkedin staff is senior at other FAANGs.
Yes, it’s difficult to find candidates to even put through an interview.
meanwhile I don't see any exciting Android roles to even consider lol
Doesn’t iOS have a similar problem? But overall the main reason is because it’s a simpler path to go for web and backend
Yup, we struggle to recruit Android engs at Uber too
My response on the first comment applies to you as well, with addition of your iďiotic RIBs architecture.
I agree with you, I don't make the rules though.
Android Engineers are not hard to find. Your interview questions are irrelevant and sadistic.
Usually it’s 2 leet code, 1 android sys design, 1 manager and 1 android coding. Which I think is pretty relevant and standard.
It's not 2 leet code questions. It's 2 sessions of leet code questions. Each session can have 2 or more questions. If you answer the question too quickly, the mentally diseased sadist will ask you infinite number of questions untill he finds one that you can't answer. Of course questions are as always irrelevant and sadistic. I have over 10 years of software engineering experience in bay area and not once in my entire life I needed to traverse a 2d maze, reverse a binary tree, or have 2 pointers on an array, but this is always the type of questions get asked at LinkedIn mental hospital (and other insane asylums in bay area). Even the Android coding question is dumb. They provide you with a project that you need to implement something in it. The project is ancient and has not been updated in a million year. So now you have to try making it work with all of these old crap. Changing it to the new tech will take hours and even if by some miracle you do it, the mental patient interviewing you will not accept it because it's not identical to what he has in his answer sheet. You are not allowed to look anything up, or they will tell you that you can, but then anything that you look up the mental patient takes note of and counts against you. During interviews they will intentionally compliment you and encourage you when you're going a totally wrong path. It is almost as if they are incentivised to confuse and misguide you as much as possible. I geniunely don't think they even want to hire anybody. It's definitely not their first priority. They're just mimicking Google like monkeys. Ooh! Look at me! I'm Google and I hire only one person out of every thousand applicants, therefor Google must be the greatest god damn company in the world which means we have high reputation and you should be grateful for working here even though we pay you peanuts and don't let you work remotely.