Round-1
The first round comprised 5 MCQ questions including aptitude, logical, Java output questions, and technical portions (Test Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes):
- Quantitative aptitude and Logical part were much more predominant, the questions were more intuitive and not typical paper pen/formula based. They were not very difficult but were very tricky.
It also included 2 coding questions from DSA and 2 Database questions and both were pretty easy.
Round-2 (Technical Interview Round-1)
- Questions from the project. My project was on REST, so he asked various typical questions on REST (Why, How, etc). He later asked me to design a REST API for a part of my project.
- She asked me to design a restaurant service. She gave me an instant scenario that there are 5 lakh restaurants, and they all are sending a request to the server & database at a particular time. She asked how could manage these requests efficiently. I gave answers by using the concepts of Load Balancer, Sharding, Master-Slave, etc. and she was pretty much happy to listen to the concepts.
- She asked me questions on various spring-related and core java related questions.
- I was asked to write an algorithm for merge sort and binary search.
Round 3 (Technical Interview Round 2)
- Again discussion on all projects.
- Discussion over REST and SOAP.
Round-4 (Managerial Round)
- Basic questions about team management and team conflict.
- What problems did you face in doing projects technologically and managing wisely too?
- He gave me instants that can arise while working in a team and asked what would do with them.
- Some discussions over what technologies I know.
- Which project do you like the most and why?
Round-5 (HR Round)
- Tell me something about yourself.
- What differentiates you from others?
- Little discussions over my extracurricular activities are written in my resume.
- Team Conflict questions.