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Android Engineering Interview Course

Nail Android Engineering interviews at FAANG and Tier-1 Tech Companies
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Course designed and taught by instructors from FAANG & Tier-1 Tech Companies

Manoj Krishnan

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Adrián Fernández

Engineering Manager
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Qiuping Xu.

Principal Data Scientist
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Android Engineering Course Curriculum

This is what you'll learn in our Android engineering career path!

  • 15 Mock Interviews
  • 6-Month Support Period

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Android Engineering course and curriculum

Data structures and Algorithms
5 weeks
5 live classes
1

Online Processing Systems

Common Scalable Concepts like DBs, Cache, Messaging Queue, etc., and Common Design Problems
2

Batch Processing Systems

Batch Processing Concepts in-depth and Common Design Problems for FAANG+ interviews
3

Stream Processing Systems

  • Case Studies: on APM, Social Connections, Netflix, Google Maps, Trending Topics, YouTube
Design real-time data-intensive applications like Google Maps, Netflix, etc.
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Sorting

  • Introduction to Sorting
  • Basics of Asymptotic Analysis and Worst Case & Average Case Analysis
  • Different Sorting Algorithms and their comparison
  • Algorithm paradigms like Divide & Conquer, Decrease & Conquer, Transform & Conquer
  • Presorting
  • Extensions of Merge Sort, Quick Sort, Heap Sort
  • Common sorting-related coding interview problems
2

Recursion

  • Recursion as a Lazy Manager's Strategy
  • Recursive Mathematical Functions
  • Combinatorial Enumeration
  • Backtracking
  • Exhaustive Enumeration & General Template
  • Common recursion- and backtracking-related coding interview problems
3

Trees

  • Dictionaries & Sets, Hash Tables 
  • Modeling data as Binary Trees and Binary Search Tree and performing different operations over them
  • Tree Traversals and Constructions 
  • BFS Coding Patterns
  • DFS Coding Patterns
  • Tree Construction from its traversals 
  • Common trees-related coding interview problems
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Graphs

  • Overview of Graphs
  • Problem definition of the 7 Bridges of Konigsberg and its connection with Graph theory
  • What is a graph, and when do you model a problem as a Graph?
  • How to store a Graph in memory (Adjacency Lists, Adjacency Matrices, Adjacency Maps)
  • Graphs traversal: BFS and DFS, BFS Tree, DFS stack-based implementation
  • A general template to solve any problems modeled as Graphs
  • Graphs in Interviews
  • Common graphs-related coding interview problems
5

Dynamic Programming

  • Dynamic Programming Introduction
  • Modeling problems as recursive mathematical functions
  • Detecting overlapping subproblems
  • Top-down Memorization
  • Bottom-up Tabulation
  • Optimizing Bottom-up Tabulation
  • Common DP-related coding interview problems

System design
3 weeks
3 live classes
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Online Processing Systems

Common Scalable Concepts like DBs, Cache, Messaging Queue, etc., and Common Design Problems
2

Batch Processing Systems

Batch Processing Concepts in-depth and Common Design Problems for FAANG+ interviews
3

Stream Processing Systems

  • Case Studies: on APM, Social Connections, Netflix, Google Maps, Trending Topics, YouTube
Design real-time data-intensive applications like Google Maps, Netflix, etc.
1

Online Processing Systems

  • The client-server model of Online processing
  • Top-down steps for system design interview
  • Depth and breadth analysis
  • Cryptographic hash function
  • Network Protocols, Web Server, Hash Index
  • Scaling
  • Performance Metrics of a Scalable System
  • SLOs and SLAs
  • Proxy: Reverse and Forward
  • Load balancing
  • CAP Theorem
  • Content Distribution Networks
  • Cache
  • Sharding
  • Consistent Hashing
  • Storage
  • Case Studies: URL Shortener, Instagram, Uber, Twitter, Messaging/Chat Services
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Batch Processing Systems

  • Inverted Index
  • External Sort Merge
  • K-way External Sort-Merge
  • Distributed File System
  • Map-reduce Framework
  • Distributed Sorting
  • Case Studies: Search Engine, Graph Processor, Typeahead Suggestions, Recommendation Systems
3

Stream Processing Systems

  • Case Studies: on APM, Social Connections, Netflix, Google Maps, Trending Topics, YouTube
Android Engineering Concepts
4 weeks
4 live classes
1

Online Processing Systems

Common Scalable Concepts like DBs, Cache, Messaging Queue, etc., and Common Design Problems
2

Batch Processing Systems

Batch Processing Concepts in-depth and Common Design Problems for FAANG+ interviews
3

Stream Processing Systems

  • Case Studies: on APM, Social Connections, Netflix, Google Maps, Trending Topics, YouTube
Design real-time data-intensive applications like Google Maps, Netflix, etc.
1

Module 1 - Android UI Programming

  • Deep dive into app life-cycle intricacies. Interesting interview questions around App life-cycle. E.g., Explain the difference between inactive, backgrounded, and suspended app states.
  • Deep dive into building UI involving usage of grid list layout, recycler view, pagination, infinite scrolling, live data, and view model
  • Challenging design questions around building custom views
  • Deep dive into Jetpack Navigation and Jetpack Stateflow
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Module 2 - Network and Memory Management

  • Interesting interview questions around making network requests and handling responses
  • Challenging design questions to involve making paginated network calls. E.g., Strategies to reduce the load time of the TikTok application.
  • A detailed discussion of data persistence strategies through interview questions. E.g., Design offline features of the WhatsApp application. 
  • Questions related to caching: when to cache? Which database to use for caching?
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Module 3 - Concurrency, Debugging, and Profiling

  • Interesting questions around designing applications that make use of Content Provider
  • Deep dive into implementing concurrency while building iOS applications involving concepts like Executors, Services, and Job scheduler
  • Deep dive into Debugging, Testing, Profiling, and Performance (CPU and Memory)
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Module 4 - Modular Architecture design

  • A general template to answer client-side system design questions
  • Common mistakes made in the interviews
  • Deep dive into strategies to design modular code architecture, which would involve concepts around dependency injection and SOLID principle implementation
Career Coaching
3 weeks
3 live classes
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Online Processing Systems

Common Scalable Concepts like DBs, Cache, Messaging Queue, etc., and Common Design Problems
2

Batch Processing Systems

Batch Processing Concepts in-depth and Common Design Problems for FAANG+ interviews
3

Stream Processing Systems

  • Case Studies: on APM, Social Connections, Netflix, Google Maps, Trending Topics, YouTube
Design real-time data-intensive applications like Google Maps, Netflix, etc.
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Interview Preparation

Interview Questions
Placement assistance
Behavioral Coaching
2

Resume & LinkedIn Masterclass

3

Salary Negotiation Masterclass

Support Period
6 months
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Online Processing Systems

Common Scalable Concepts like DBs, Cache, Messaging Queue, etc., and Common Design Problems
2

Batch Processing Systems

Batch Processing Concepts in-depth and Common Design Problems for FAANG+ interviews
3

Stream Processing Systems

  • Case Studies: on APM, Social Connections, Netflix, Google Maps, Trending Topics, YouTube
Design real-time data-intensive applications like Google Maps, Netflix, etc.
1

15 mock interviews

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Take classes you missed/retake classes/tests

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1:1 technical/career coaching

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Interview strategy and salary negotiation support


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Best Suited for

  • Current or Former Android Engineers

Android Engineer Interview Process at Tier-1 Companies

We prepare you for all stages of a typical Android Engineer interview process at FAANG and Tier-1 companies

Initial Screening

  • A coding round and a few Android-related questions based on your past projects.

Behavioral Round

  • Questions related to your job experience
  • Discussions on past projects
  • Open-ended questions to gauge if you're a "good fit"

Onsite Round

1-2 General Coding Rounds

  • DSA-based coding rounds (the difficulty level may increase depending on your experience)

1-2 Android Coding Rounds

  • Analyze/Debug the source code of an Android application
  • Implement a mobile app feature, for instance, translating various touch gestures to their corresponding image transformations

1-2 System Design Rounds

  • Design Android clients for various use cases
  • Develop certain features from scratch
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Highest number of offers received by an alum

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Interview Kickstart is like a fitness coach which guides to achieve your dream job. It can help you identify your weak points and also suggest steps to improve them.

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