The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the internal workings of a HashMap in Java. How does it handle collisions, and what changes were introduced in Java 8 to improve performance?
#Data Structures
#Hashing
#Java Internals
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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hard
How does Garbage Collection work in Java? Describe the differences between G1 GC and ZGC, and how you would tune them for a low-latency microservice.
#Garbage Collection
#JVM Tuning
#Memory Management
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you size a ThreadPoolExecutor in Java? What factors do you consider when choosing between a fixed thread pool and a cached thread pool for I/O bound vs CPU bound tasks?
#Concurrency
#Multithreading
#Performance Tuning
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