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If hired here at Slack to develop iOS and Android software, when would you use a fragment rather than an activity?

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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

In the development of apps for both iOS and Android, using code to create an activity versus a fragment is a highly debated topic to this day. For this question, your interviewer is looking to hear that you understand what the differences between the two are and when you feel that using a fragment is the proper direction to go. Make sure to speak to the high level overview of what an activity does to an app versus fragments.

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"As a best practice in my development of Android apps in the past, activities are really the complete screen that a user experiences as part of the app. Fragments are really small sub activities that take place within the activity. Because fragments within an app have their own life cycle and receive their own input events within the app, there are specific times where fragments make the most sense to use in development. In my experience, I always use fragments when the app is working with UI components that are going to be uses across multiple activities within the app. As well, fragments have also served very well when using swipe views within the app."

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27Slack Interview Questions & Answers

1.If hired here at Slack to develop iOS and Android software, when would you use a fragment rather than an activity?

2.A huge part of our business here at Slack is designing software for iOS. In this role, how would you steer away from retain cycles when using closures in Swift programming language?

3.What programming languages would you consider yourself fluent in?

4.We are looking for innovators to join us here at Slack. Where have you brought innovation in automation to a process in your career?

5.If you were confronted with a time where you wouldn't be able to meet a deadline here at Slack, what steps would you take when you made that realization?

6.What is one thing that really tests your patience when dealing with your coworkers?

7.What do you feel is one of the top issues that is faced by data engineers today?

8.What experience do you have in the different types of software maintenance?

9.What do you feel are the primary features and benefits of the Java programming language?

10.As you reflect back on your career to this point in your search for a new position, what would you say is your ideal work environment or culture?

11.In your experience in software testing, would you consider yourself proficient in both testing and debugging processes?

12.In your current work, what are the important steps you take in the data validation process?

13.What do you consider to be a good litmus test for when you would automate a test process for a new system versus testing manually?

14.What software analysis and design tools do you have familiarity working with?

15.What do you see as the top benefits of moving to a cloud based computing platform?

16.If hired for this position at Slack, what leadership skills would you bring to our team?

17.When do you consider a project to be finished?

18.Our cloud computing at Slack requires our experts to take proper security measures in their work. What security measures are you familiar with utilizing in a cloud platform?