What is the interviewer supposed to hone in on for that?
Like if i was to answer that honestly, it was fixing an obscure i18n bug for an underserved language group. I felt it was cool because it was such a small amount of work but made some people inordinately happy. In many ways i am much more proud of this 20 min bug fix than all the big technical projects i've done. But if you asked me any technical questions about it, the answer would almost entirely be - i used the architecture that already existed, because i was fixing a bug not rewriting the code base.
I have a couple of basic android apps and a site in Angular. One of my android apps had a few interesting problem. They would probably easy for experienced people, but they were hard for me when I was just learning. One the issues wouldn't even be applicable since we can use fragments today.
If you’re interviewing for a junior position that would be fine. If you’re interviewing for something higher level that answer would definitely raise some red flags.
The point is to see if the experience you claim matches what you have actually done.
That's the condensed version of the answer for here. Obviously id go into the technical details in an interview.
I work for a finance company. The vast majority of the devs, including seniors, haven't released any software outside of work. Maybe 10% have. It seems this is true for other non-tech industries too.
Even on here, do you think more than 50% have released something they made by themself, that is more advanced than a simple Android app? Obviously there's a lot of talent here. I would be surprised if the number is higher than that.
"What do you do for fun when not at work? … dig into to questions from here."
Made me think the other questions are follow-ups to these.
Eh, when you work on large systems in a large and highly regulated company, it's not very exciting. There have been some interesting components to those systems, but in general they have been mundane business topics with tight guiderails and little freedom. I mean, the majority of people in the world don't get "excited" about work - it's just the means of survival.
I feel it's hard to fake convincing answers to these kind of "getting things done in the real world" questions.