True Balance || SDE 2 || Interview Experience || Dec 2025

Role - Java Backend developer
Experience - 3 years 7 months
Location - Gurugram

Round 1 -

• Project discussion and follow up questions
• Coding question - Find the minimum boat trips to take n people of different weights across a river. The maximum capacity of boat allowed is given in input and only 2 people can be carried in one trip.
• How to connect MySQL to your program using JDBC
• What is a Linked Hashmap? Does it use a doubly or singly linked list?
• What is the default isolation level in mysql?
• What is transaction management annotation in springboot?
• What is the difference between comparator and comparable? Tell a differentiating use case.

Verdict - Negative, as I couldn't answer 1-2 questions.
Rejected as each round was eliminatory.