An external recruiter sent my resume to them and I had an interview with the hiring manager. Afterwards, I was asked to complete an estimated 4-6 hour project which would involve writing an Android app that pulls data from an API and displaying some of the information in a custom view. I'm willing to jump through a hoop or two during a job application, but I found 4+ hours to be completely disrespectful of my time so I rescinded my application. I understand that a company needs to find out if an applicant can actually do the job that they're under consideration for, but that's excessive and indicates several things about their corporate culture, none of which are good.

The process took 2 months. I've applied August 28th and October 29th I've received "...we regret to inform you that we will not be proceeding with your candidacy at this point" message. The initial screening phone interview happened September 24th after a month after applying. Screening was ok and next day I've got a test assignment. The assignment doesn't look difficult but verbose in implementation. There were 3 parts and it requires from 3 to 8 hours to complete, depending on your skills and how good you're with http request, RecyclerView, AsyncTasks/Loaders and Android Rooms/MS SQL. From my personal experience such tasks would hardly mean anything - they are too big to be a threshold assignment but if you did it well the assignment wouldn't add points in hiring process. But anyway I did that - did well using Lifecycle and Kotlin, third party library usage has been banned. I've sent the assignment September 30th. One week later there was still no response. At that moment I had an offer from Atlassian but wanted to finish the hiring process somehow. So I've asked if there is a feedback. I've been suggested for interview one week later - October 16th. The last interview was kind a set of technical questions - about Android and the test application. Nothing special, the question was ordinal - Android, platform and it seems libraries. A few "tricky" question about approaches I've used in the test assignment. Two weeks later I've got "...we regret to inform you..." email. The overall impression - looks like the company doesn't know who are they looking for or they don't need an Android developer at the moment. The Android guys in the final interview was ok but didn't look like experienced ones. The questions was rather typical and a kind of boring. Answering to my question "Who are you looking for?" - one of the interviewer said "Middle level developer". So probably I was overqualified for them but perhaps there were other reasons.