A one hour Zoom with an iOS developer from DoorDash. I was emailed a zip file containing an Xcode project that contained a README, a JSON sample file, and a struct with a getItemData() function that had three lines of code to load the JSON file from disk. I needed to deserialize the JSON into native Swift objects and then build a UI that displayed the item as specified, including downloading images from URLs. I was able to deserialize the JSON into native Swift objects without issue, but got hung up on creating the UI. Although I have many years of UIKit under my belt, I have been doing SwiftUI for the past few months. When I tried to switch the project to SwiftUI, I first hit a deployment target issue. I changed that to iOS 15 but then forgot how to get SwiftUI into a UIViewController. By that time, I decided to create a new SwiftUI project and just drag the resources into it. Unfortunately, I ran out of time and could not get the UI built. I kind of feel like a lot of these Silicon Valley companies are doing interviews, but not actually hiring. They are all looking for engineers who have memorized what is needed to pass a one hour coding interview. While building a simple native iOS app is an improvement to Leetcode problems, I am not a fan of this timed method of evaluating skillsets.

The first round was a phone screen with a recruiter. I then spoke to an engineering manager. We jumped straight into Xcode, where I was tested on my live iOS coding ability.