My interview for a Java engineer position took place recently. The interview process consisted of:

1. Online coding
2. Technical round

The online coding questions were okay. There were three simple programs to write in 60 minutes:

1. Merge sort (specifically, the merge part)
2. Parsing a peculiar date format based on strings and displaying it in another format
3. A simple question based on arrays.

In a face-to-face interview, the interviewer was interested in the syntax of Java 8 functions, even though I mentioned I haven't worked at an industry level with Java 8.

The interviewer focused on the syntax of everything, even for annotations. If you know all of that by heart, you can impress the interviewer.

There were many theoretical questions. If someone prepares only by studying questions from online forums, they can crack it.

The programming questions asked, such as printing factorial and Fibonacci series, were for a candidate with 7 years of experience. These questions were too low in standard compared to online coding challenges.