Robinhood Mobile Engineer interview experience

I had about an hour to hit an API, render the response as a list, and then tap an item to open a detail screen. I remember thinking the scope was already tight, but the bigger problem was that the interviewer made me start from scratch even though I’d set up a small boilerplate app beforehand.

What followed was mostly friction: fumbling through dependencies and boilerplate, with little interest in digging into tradeoffs, maintainability, or testing. The interviewer seemed focused on solving as quickly as possible, and because I wasn’t getting much guidance on what to prioritize, I ended up