The recruiter called me later than the scheduled time, very curt and unfriendly. Didn't let me ask questions at the end of the interview. Gave me an at-home project and sent me an automated reject based on feedback that just said this functionality is broken. I ran it again and verified it worked but at that point I got no further replies from them. Wasted time with that project.
I applied online. I interviewed at Comcast (Philadelphia, PA) in Nov 2020
Interview
Applied directly on Comcast's job portal website and submitted by CV through there. Contacted by recruiter upon a week of submitting my application with an email to set up a time to talk more about the role. Discussed about the title, my experience, salary expectations, benefits, and what the coding interview portion would entail. Comcast was competitive in compensation when compared to the other traditional engineering companies that I was interviewing for during the time. The recruiter was responsive up until I was told that they would get back to me after completing their Android app.
Reached out twice in the past 3 weeks to the same recruiter with no response, when I finally hear back from their internal recruiter I'm told that they're so sorry at the team has taken this long to get back to me. Finally, I get an auto-generated response letting me know that they've reviewed my resume and I'm not qualified, despite already having a recruiter contact me to talk over my resume and give me the interview challenge for the position? What is going on over at their Talent Acquisition? No code review from the team, either. Disappointing given the amount of time that candidates need to spend when completing these assignments.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding portion is a take-home assignment, build an Android app in Kotlin using MVP/MVI architecture communicating with an API (DuckDuckGo) to show a list of characters from both the Wire and the Simpsons with a detail view when tapping on a character and search to filter characters by name/description, third-party libraries are fine. The most difficult part of the app was probably creating a POGO wrapper to get all the data from the API and parsing through it (DuckDuckGo's API for search). Apart from that, it was a fairly straightforward test.
