Java Back End Developer Interview Questions

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public class Person { Person father; Person mother; Gender gender; Integer age; List<Person> children; int level = 0; public enum Gender { Male, Female; } } For the above class, you basically have to implement 2 methods. public List<Person> getOldestSisters() public List<Person> getGreatestAncestors()
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Senior Software Engineer, Java Back End

Interviewed at Veeva Systems

3.5
19 Aug 2015

public class Person { Person father; Person mother; Gender gender; Integer age; List<Person> children; int level = 0; public enum Gender { Male, Female; } } For the above class, you basically have to implement 2 methods. public List<Person> getOldestSisters() public List<Person> getGreatestAncestors()

round 1: Why coming to Berlin from India? Why Zalando? What do you know about Zalando? Salary expectations? Do you have any questions? round 2: Tell me about about a situation when there has been a conflict between you and your colleague, how you resolved it. Tell me about about a situation when there has been a conflict between two of your colleagues, they approached how you resolved it. How do you convince people to choose a technology? Tell me about about a situation when you went against odds / didn't listen to your manager. How you convince people to help you with technical issues. Tell me about about a situation which proves you are motivated to take up challenges and learn new technologies. How you choose a a particular technology/solution from among multiple technologies/solutions.
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Back End Developer (Java)

Interviewed at Zalando

3.6
22 Nov 2015

round 1: Why coming to Berlin from India? Why Zalando? What do you know about Zalando? Salary expectations? Do you have any questions? round 2: Tell me about about a situation when there has been a conflict between you and your colleague, how you resolved it. Tell me about about a situation when there has been a conflict between two of your colleagues, they approached how you resolved it. How do you convince people to choose a technology? Tell me about about a situation when you went against odds / didn't listen to your manager. How you convince people to help you with technical issues. Tell me about about a situation which proves you are motivated to take up challenges and learn new technologies. How you choose a a particular technology/solution from among multiple technologies/solutions.

"Suppose you have two different kinds of server requests - requests that MUST be responded to in 2 seconds and cannot be resent, and requests that can be responded to in 10 seconds, but can be resent. How would you handle the priority of responding to these requests?"
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Back-end Java Engineer

Interviewed at Fanatics

3.3
20 May 2016

"Suppose you have two different kinds of server requests - requests that MUST be responded to in 2 seconds and cannot be resent, and requests that can be responded to in 10 seconds, but can be resent. How would you handle the priority of responding to these requests?"

you get an automatic reply containing as assignment , that will take you couple of days to complete. then they reply something like....your CV does not match our desired skill set, that't it!!! (are you serious?!)
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Senior Java/Back-end Developer

Interviewed at Jimdo

3.4
23 Jun 2018

you get an automatic reply containing as assignment , that will take you couple of days to complete. then they reply something like....your CV does not match our desired skill set, that't it!!! (are you serious?!)

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