Technical Lead Senior Java Software Engineer Interview Questions

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Phone Interview: What needs to be overriden to make an object a key in hashmap? Give me some examples of Lists? Give me some examples of Sets. Explain how a Map works Tell me some access modifiers. What is needed to make an object a Key apart from overriding equals and hashcode. What is a property of a primitive Tell me some properties of a String Explain how an Arraylist works Abstract vs Inheritance What does a class need to let it be run as a thread How do you create a thread When is finally used / what is it? What is a synchronised block What are checked and unchecked exceptions. Why is an ArrayList faster than a Linked List First round in person Maths: Worked out general rule based on given paramaters Code: Simple Java problems (palindrome, output value when number is a multiple, etc. look in a java interview book, cracking the coding interview is good) Riddle: Worst part, again will be something in the cracking the coding interview book. Second round. Much like the first + HR bit.
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Java Developer Team Leader

Interviewed at Scott Logic

2.5
Sep 26, 2015

Phone Interview: What needs to be overriden to make an object a key in hashmap? Give me some examples of Lists? Give me some examples of Sets. Explain how a Map works Tell me some access modifiers. What is needed to make an object a Key apart from overriding equals and hashcode. What is a property of a primitive Tell me some properties of a String Explain how an Arraylist works Abstract vs Inheritance What does a class need to let it be run as a thread How do you create a thread When is finally used / what is it? What is a synchronised block What are checked and unchecked exceptions. Why is an ArrayList faster than a Linked List First round in person Maths: Worked out general rule based on given paramaters Code: Simple Java problems (palindrome, output value when number is a multiple, etc. look in a java interview book, cracking the coding interview is good) Riddle: Worst part, again will be something in the cracking the coding interview book. Second round. Much like the first + HR bit.

1. Solid principles 2. Singleton pattern, in case if we pass hashmap- map can be altered and it will destroy singleton, how to handle that 3. How to create threads 4. How to execute 10 threads at a time 5. How to create global exception class 6. When to use arraylist and linkedlist 7. Completable in java 8 8. What's changed in hashmap in java 8 9. Deep copying and shallow copying 10. Use of volatile keyword in java 11. Programming a. String ="I love programming" -we need to count the length and arrange it in desc but that should be return as string using stream api b. List in = Arrays.asList(1,3,7,0,6,7,8,0); need to sort this and put only 0 at first and let the remaining stay as it is using stream API
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Java Lead Developer

Interviewed at Hexaware Technologies

3.7
May 23, 2025

1. Solid principles 2. Singleton pattern, in case if we pass hashmap- map can be altered and it will destroy singleton, how to handle that 3. How to create threads 4. How to execute 10 threads at a time 5. How to create global exception class 6. When to use arraylist and linkedlist 7. Completable in java 8 8. What's changed in hashmap in java 8 9. Deep copying and shallow copying 10. Use of volatile keyword in java 11. Programming a. String ="I love programming" -we need to count the length and arrange it in desc but that should be return as string using stream api b. List in = Arrays.asList(1,3,7,0,6,7,8,0); need to sort this and put only 0 at first and let the remaining stay as it is using stream API

They focused mainly on scalable Java backend architecture, microservices design, concurrency handling, performance optimization, system design decisions, and experience leading development teams in production environments.
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Lead Java Developer

Interviewed at Viber

4.4
May 27, 2026

They focused mainly on scalable Java backend architecture, microservices design, concurrency handling, performance optimization, system design decisions, and experience leading development teams in production environments.

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