Mid
iOS growth engineering on Google Photos onboarding
Interview prep for the Software Engineer, Mobile (iOS) role on Google Photos' Onboarding iOS Growth team in Sydney. The team runs experiments on first-run onboarding to lift new-user growth metrics, so expect focus on iOS app development, Swift/SwiftUI, and shipping measurable product features rather than pure algorithms.
Step into this interview
Free · a live voice mock calibrated to this exact role
Likely format
Google SWE loop typically includes a recruiter screen, 1-2 coding phone screens, then an onsite/virtual onsite with coding, Googleyness/behavioral, and role-related (mobile/systems) rounds.
What this interview tests
- iOS app development with Swift/SwiftUI or Objective-C
- Data structures and algorithms applied to mobile/app problems
- Debugging, triaging, and resolving issues in an existing codebase
- Designing and shipping a new product feature end to end
- Cross-functional collaboration (Android counterparts, PM, growth experiments)
- Architectural improvements to existing mobile features
Common question themes
Walk through designing an onboarding flow experiment on iOS and how you'd measure success
Swift/SwiftUI concepts and how you'd structure a growth-experiment-friendly view
Debug a reported crash/regression in an existing iOS feature
Coding: a data structures/algorithms problem
How would you improve the architecture of an existing onboarding feature
Behavioral: cross-functional work with Android/PM/global eng teams
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