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Nothing complicated. Just questions about Spark and how it works internally. There was a question on how I choose between different approaches at work (tradeoffs, etc.). The "unexpected" coding session was more like a code review session in reality.
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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Cloudera

4.1★
May 21, 2026

Nothing complicated. Just questions about Spark and how it works internally. There was a question on how I choose between different approaches at work (tradeoffs, etc.). The "unexpected" coding session was more like a code review session in reality.

Primarily focuses on various aspects of SwiftUI, including concepts such as Identifiable, Equatable, and Hashable, as well as the use of 'id' in lists. It also covers topics like threading, concurrency, and actor reentrancy, along with thread safety in structs and classes. Additionally, it discusses whether a shared static struct is thread-safe and outlines approaches for conducting end-to-end QA testing. Other topics include localization and size classes.
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Staff IOS Developer

Interviewed at Experian

4.1★
Jan 23, 2026

Primarily focuses on various aspects of SwiftUI, including concepts such as Identifiable, Equatable, and Hashable, as well as the use of 'id' in lists. It also covers topics like threading, concurrency, and actor reentrancy, along with thread safety in structs and classes. Additionally, it discusses whether a shared static struct is thread-safe and outlines approaches for conducting end-to-end QA testing. Other topics include localization and size classes.

One exercise I particularly enjoyed was identify a bug in code and providing feedback as if it was a code review. It felt like a more accurate way to measure the day-to-day work than some other more artificial interview questions
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Indeed

3.8★
Mar 24, 2023

One exercise I particularly enjoyed was identify a bug in code and providing feedback as if it was a code review. It felt like a more accurate way to measure the day-to-day work than some other more artificial interview questions

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