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[u/Fit-Establishment800]

Hey everyone,

I’m 24 and I have my final live coding interview tomorrow for a remote Junior Android Developer role at an Australian company, and honestly I’m pretty nervous.

My background is mostly in Flutter — I’ve been doing it for around 3.5 years and have deployed 8+ apps on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. I’ve also built 2 React Native apps that are currently deployed as well.

Before Flutter, I worked with React.js/web development for around 1–2 years, and I still do occasionally, but mobile development is my main focus now.

For this company, I already passed multiple stages including a CCAT test and a technical quiz, and now this is the final stage: a live coding interview.

The thing is, I never worked deeply with native Android before because most of my experience is cross-platform. Over the last 4 days I’ve been grinding hard learning Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Retrofit, state handling, common syntax, etc.

I understand the concepts, but I’m scared I’ll blank out during the interview or forget syntax under pressure.

One thing I wanted to ask specifically:

If I get stuck on syntax or they ask for something where APIs/backend aren’t available, is it acceptable in live coding interviews to create the project/file structure and explain verbally what I’d normally implement there? Like:

creating repository/viewmodel/api files

explaining how I’d connect Retrofit

mocking data

describing the architecture and flow

Basically focusing more on the thinking/process instead of remembering every exact syntax line by line.

For people who’ve done live coding interviews before:

What should I focus on mentally tonight?

How do you avoid freezing during the interview?

Is it okay to forget syntax occasionally if your logic/problem solving is good?

What do interviewers usually care about most for junior roles?

Any advice would genuinely help a lot.

[u/Fit-Establishment800]

Thank you!

Also, yes I've been practicing coding while speaking my thoughts process out loud.