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Attended 6 rounds. Java 8, Spring Boot, Microservices along with design patterns. These are the main area of focus in interviews. And mainly they will expect to write a program using java streams. So we should be good at Java 8 stream api's.
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Senior Java Developer

Interviewed at Altimetrik

3.9★
Mar 18, 2025

Attended 6 rounds. Java 8, Spring Boot, Microservices along with design patterns. These are the main area of focus in interviews. And mainly they will expect to write a program using java streams. So we should be good at Java 8 stream api's.

1. Explain Collection framework in Java? 2. Java 8 Features 3. Sorting array elements ( Based on Comparator & Comparable) 4. OOP Concepts 5. Array List vs Linked List 6. Sort map by value 7. Internal Working of HashMap 8. Serialization 9. map() vs flatmap() 10. Add elements of List of List using Steam API 11. IOC & Depenedncy Injection 12. What is profiles and actuators in Spring Boot? 13. @Controller vs @RestController 14. @Bean vs @Component 15. Explain Auto configuration and Dependency management feature in Spring Boot 16. Get nth highest salary from employee table
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Senior Software Engineer - Java

Interviewed at Hughes Systique

4★
May 9, 2023

1. Explain Collection framework in Java? 2. Java 8 Features 3. Sorting array elements ( Based on Comparator & Comparable) 4. OOP Concepts 5. Array List vs Linked List 6. Sort map by value 7. Internal Working of HashMap 8. Serialization 9. map() vs flatmap() 10. Add elements of List of List using Steam API 11. IOC & Depenedncy Injection 12. What is profiles and actuators in Spring Boot? 13. @Controller vs @RestController 14. @Bean vs @Component 15. Explain Auto configuration and Dependency management feature in Spring Boot 16. Get nth highest salary from employee table

1) Java 11, 17, and 21 features. 2) What is the use of Optional? 3) What are intermediate and terminal operations? 4) In an interface, what is the purpose of default and static methods? 5) What is the Builder pattern? 6) How do you create an immutable class? 7) How do you share requests from one microservice to another? 8) Write a program to find the 2nd largest numbers in an unsorted array without using an inbuilt sort function. 9) How can we restrict a list from being modified? 10) What is transient? 11) What is volatile? 12) put vs patch ?
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Senior Java Full Stack Engineer

Interviewed at CRISIL

3.8★
Jul 11, 2025

1) Java 11, 17, and 21 features. 2) What is the use of Optional? 3) What are intermediate and terminal operations? 4) In an interface, what is the purpose of default and static methods? 5) What is the Builder pattern? 6) How do you create an immutable class? 7) How do you share requests from one microservice to another? 8) Write a program to find the 2nd largest numbers in an unsorted array without using an inbuilt sort function. 9) How can we restrict a list from being modified? 10) What is transient? 11) What is volatile? 12) put vs patch ?

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