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Why you choose AcOOPS Concept like (Encapsulation, Inheritance, Exception Handling, Abstraction etc.,), Collections(full structure explanation and sample code for the Hash), Servlet(Process, functionalities), String questions , Arrays and programs to code.centure
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Senior Java Developer

Interviewed at Accenture

3.7
Sep 20, 2021

Why you choose AcOOPS Concept like (Encapsulation, Inheritance, Exception Handling, Abstraction etc.,), Collections(full structure explanation and sample code for the Hash), Servlet(Process, functionalities), String questions , Arrays and programs to code.centure

1. Project Discussion: I was asked to explain the current architecture of my project. I spoke about our microservices-based payment platform using Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL. 2. Deep Dive into Challenges: They asked about the most challenging issue I faced. I shared how we handled message duplication and retries when Kafka consumers failed and how we used Redis for idempotency. 3. Core Spring Concepts: Questions included: Scopes of Spring beans, Use of Prototype scope and related implementation, Common mistakes with Singleton beans, How to exclude packages from component scanning 4. Transaction Management: They asked about @Transactional and how Spring manages transactions under the hood. 5. JPA & Hibernate: Topics included: Features of JPA, Optimizing queries to prevent repetitive DB hits 6. Kafka Scenario-Based: A practical scenario: what to do when a Kafka producer fails. I explained storing failed messages, retry strategies, DB optimizations, and caching using Redis.
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Senior Java Microservices Developer

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5
Jun 9, 2025

1. Project Discussion: I was asked to explain the current architecture of my project. I spoke about our microservices-based payment platform using Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL. 2. Deep Dive into Challenges: They asked about the most challenging issue I faced. I shared how we handled message duplication and retries when Kafka consumers failed and how we used Redis for idempotency. 3. Core Spring Concepts: Questions included: Scopes of Spring beans, Use of Prototype scope and related implementation, Common mistakes with Singleton beans, How to exclude packages from component scanning 4. Transaction Management: They asked about @Transactional and how Spring manages transactions under the hood. 5. JPA & Hibernate: Topics included: Features of JPA, Optimizing queries to prevent repetitive DB hits 6. Kafka Scenario-Based: A practical scenario: what to do when a Kafka producer fails. I explained storing failed messages, retry strategies, DB optimizations, and caching using Redis.

Question: Count the email domains List employees = new ArrayList<>(); employees.add(new Employee("A", "A@google.com")); employees.add(new Employee("b", "b@gmail.com")); employees.add(new Employee("C", "C@google.com")); employees.add(new Employee("D", "D@yahoo.com"));
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Senior Java Software Engineer

Interviewed at EPAM Systems

4
Jul 7, 2023

Question: Count the email domains List employees = new ArrayList<>(); employees.add(new Employee("A", "A@google.com")); employees.add(new Employee("b", "b@gmail.com")); employees.add(new Employee("C", "C@google.com")); employees.add(new Employee("D", "D@yahoo.com"));

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