I have an upcoming software engineering interview with Anthropic for a role that involves mobile/Android work, and the next round has a format I haven’t seen before. The recruiter described it like this (paraphrased):
A small mobile app that has some bugs. Instead of building new features, you will have to investigate what's wrong, find the root cause, and fix what you can. The app is in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose. You should be familiar building UI with common Compose primitives and managing state with ViewModel. We are interested in how the candidate approaches debugging, how you prioritize what to fix first, and how you verify the correctness of your fixes.
Does anybody has experience with this kind of question? I have never seen an assessment like this, and I'm not able to find any good resources/examples to practice.
In the past, I have been in other interviews were you have to build a small app from scratch (usually API + LazyColumn). My feeling is that even if you have been working in Android for several years, you definitely need to practice in order to be successful on this kind of assessment. Similarly, at my current job, I find and fix issues all the time. However, this situation is different because of the time pressure, and I would like to be prepared if possible.
Any recommendations?
Thanks in advance!
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