I have an initial telephone interview with one of their front office team.

The interviewer asked a few Java questions.

Most questions are text book java 7 questions and they are not up to date.

The interviewer does not know the latest features in Java 8 or 9.

When I discussed him with stream and lambda expression can do better computing in multithreading application and most of the secnarios he asked me can be done in a better way, he is resistant to confront.

In overall I have I found the interviewer is less knowledgeable about the latest technologies and the team is struggling to attract top talent because most team members are stucked in their way and they are reluctant to change.

Hence they are just looking for someone with old skill sets that can fit in the team.

What made me feel really negative is I was given a contact from HR to get some feedback but they failed to give me any.

I have answered all their questions and at least I deserved an answer where it went wrong.

This sort of attitude is completely wrong.

The only reason I see they failed to provide a feedback is because they do not have any and they do not want to provide a feedback to make them look silly and less knowledgeable.

Do not apply banks, if you apply you will find out that your talent cannot be fully realised.

Basic Java 7, Spring, Hibernate questions.

Just answer all questions with knowledge in Java 7. Do not show you know more than 7 as it is not needed and the interviewer does not understand. For what they don’t understand they simply reject rather than listen. It is very typical bank mentality that they are always the best. If they found someone more talent than them, they will feel being challenged hence you will not pass the interview.