In general, the technical interview process was friendlies, clear, interesting questions, fair, without stupid questions. As a result, I was evaluated as Lead Java Software Engineer. The second stage of technical interview with client team lead also was clear and concise.
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From basic concepts/best practices to architectural patterns, databases, message brokers, clouds, based on my professional experience,
I answered all the questions, and they were all correct. but after round 1 they didn't give a call back. Not sure what went wrong. I feel they could have given me a feedback.
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circuitbreaker, service discovery,profiles, how to config db, ways to commuinicate b/w microservices, why microservices, how does springboot handle dependency injection, what is synchronization, functional interface in java, optional , arraylist vs linkedlist, internal working of hashmap, controller advice,garbage collection, finally, throw vs throws, how is security done in APIs, ci/cd, get even number from a string that has chars, ins and special chars
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at GlobalLogic (Kraków) in Oct 2024
Interview
Most of the interview focused on system design/architecture topics. There were also a few technical questions about Java, Kafka, and Spring. However, I need to point out the recruiter’s behavior. She joined the interview call wearing a bathrobe. At the beginning of the conversation, I couldn’t understand her due to background noise, so I asked her to use headphones. She responded by saying that no one had ever pointed this out before and that she always conducts interviews this way. Eventually, she put on headphones, but they didn’t work, so the interview continued with her laptop microphone. I had to ask for clarification multiple times to ensure I understood the questions correctly.
Towards the end of the interview, I noticed that the recruiter was frequently typing on her laptop while laughing ostentatiously. Overall, my impressions of the interview were quite poor.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to improve performance of the REST API if we predict more requests in future.
How many types of DI do we have, and why?
Microservice vs monolith in specific situation