I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Target (Bengaluru) in Sep 2018
Interview
1. Telephonic round
2. Coding Round
3. Technical Round
4. Technical Round
5. Managerial Round
Singleton, immutable, Rotate a Linked List
database connection code using data-structure
WeakHashMap
Use of options method in rest API
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Target
Interview
The interview didn't know where to focus.. He was just randomly picking unrelated questions. Some of the questions were very basic like school days math questions. The interviewer was focusing on failing rather than getting the answers.
I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Target (Bengaluru) in Aug 2019
Interview
Applied via LinkedIn. Got a call. Got interview scheduled. Calendar invite wasn’t send. I got a random call. I told them to send a calendar invite first, they did it we talked after 2days.
Had just a telephonic exploratory round for 15 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What have you been working on?
Do you have exposure to CI/CD? What does spinnaker do?
Do you have exposure to infra? What are containers? what is kubernetes? What K8S do you use? Managed or your own?
Do you have REST API experience?
What’s the difference between path param & query param?
What error do you send when a resource is not available from path param?
How to differentiate from invalid path vs resource not found if both return 404?
What’s the throughput of your service?
Are you comfortable coding in java? Spring boot?
Do you write unit tests? How do you measure code coverage?
Have you ever mocked anything? what was it? Why do you mock something?
Given a RRST API Server if you’re bombarded with a millions of requests, what’d you do? How’d you identify there is a problem?
I believe there is a mismatch in profile and expectations, we work with service that has around 4Kps throughout. So are you interested in this profile? Are you ready to learn?