This was laughably bad. I would generally implore you to stay away as a software engineer.

BoA is trying to recruit top tech talent from the West Coast, but they have people from London calling you, and because of the time difference, you have to have the call at 8 AM.

Ah yes, screw coffee; getting a rapid fire of Java trivia from an irked British man is how I wake up!

Somehow, I can be working at one of the biggest top tech companies in the world and get onsites at Google, Facebook, or Microsoft easily, yet I get filtered out right away by some trivia questions.

Clarification: I am not mad that I didn't know the questions. I promise I am putting most of my ego aside for this. A lot of these Midwest-style interview questions are the same things asked over and over, so this won't take more than a couple of weeks of prep for me to memorize.

And that's why I'm mad: that talent is being filtered by these trivia questions that you don't use in production and that just take two weeks of rote learning to master. That's what makes a "good engineer." Coding style questions at least give you a vehicle to communicate and use the fundamentals you've learned/memorized, and none of that is being used here. And that BoA has the audacity to be using these questions in 2018, provide no other means for a phone screen than a grainy 8 AM phone call from across the pond, and wants to attract tech talent and market themselves as a top shop for that.

Pathetic.

Java Language Trivia Questions