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White board programming for a simple sorting, searching or recursion logic. Questions on unit testing and various other programming questions. Nothing on latest technologies like spring, jpa, functional. Just core java thats all.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Charles River Development

3.7
Jan 9, 2016

White board programming for a simple sorting, searching or recursion logic. Questions on unit testing and various other programming questions. Nothing on latest technologies like spring, jpa, functional. Just core java thats all.

Interviewer didn't even bother to share if this was a technical or hr or immigration round. Few questions on my profile while cribbing continuously about the resume format being hard to read (it was a 1 page resume!!). Question on immigration, and HR question and last 10 minutes was technical round, in which he asked about; 1. java 2.0 style list ie List l = new Arraylist(), and add values and guess what it and print. I don't think they know that java 9 will be out soon. I asked him if this code compiles fine, he very rudely moved on to the next question. 2. Writing a dynamic programm question. 3. A question on Java polymorphism. 4. Abrupt ending of interview that would leave you speechless.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at VIVA USA

2.8
Aug 30, 2017

Interviewer didn't even bother to share if this was a technical or hr or immigration round. Few questions on my profile while cribbing continuously about the resume format being hard to read (it was a 1 page resume!!). Question on immigration, and HR question and last 10 minutes was technical round, in which he asked about; 1. java 2.0 style list ie List l = new Arraylist(), and add values and guess what it and print. I don't think they know that java 9 will be out soon. I asked him if this code compiles fine, he very rudely moved on to the next question. 2. Writing a dynamic programm question. 3. A question on Java polymorphism. 4. Abrupt ending of interview that would leave you speechless.

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