Interviewed for Java Backend Developer role.

Candidate Profile:
B.Tech(IT) from Tier 2 College.
3.3 YOE at a Service Based Company
Current CTC: 11+1.5 LPA
Location: Bangalore
Immediate Joiner

Total rounds: 3
1- Telephonic HR round/Profile matching
2- Face to Face interview
3- Managerial round/cultural fit

Round 1
Past projects, why switching, total experience, and salary expectations

Round 2: Face to Face interview at Bangalore (Jayanagar facility) with Technology Lead(2 member pannel): 1.2 hours

• Introduction
• Past project
• Questions on Resume
• Draw Architecture diagram of the project on whiteboard. Explain the microservice architecture, Async communications, Gateways, Spring Security, Load Balancing. WHYs and WHATs of each component in the architecture diagram
• Write Pseudo-code for Basic Star ("*") pattern printing question on WhiteBoard.
• Spring boot core questions, annotation usage, REST architecture, Validation checks, annotations used in past project
• DB communication, MVC architure, handling edge cases
• Intermediate level questions on Java 8, Exception, Concurrency, OOPs concepts in depth especially inheritance and abstraction
• Live coding for a simple User Defined Exception in Notepad.
• Unit Testing, how I handled bugs from UAT testing, how I handled exceptions
• College project
• Why switching

Round 3: Interview with Senior Technology Architect
Unable to make it to this round.

Not Selected.

P.S: Applied via Naukri Portal. Recieved call from HR directly.
Intermediate Front-end(Angular) competency was expected.