I attended an interview recently at Deloitte for a Java profile. They were looking for candidates with 3–5 years of experience.

Below are the questions they asked me. This may vary depending on the panel you get for the interview, but these are the questions I was asked.

Round 1: Online test (MCQ) Mostly from core Java (String, interface, polymorphism, collections). Some from Spring and Hibernate. 30 questions in 30 minutes. No negative marking.

Round 2: F2F technical Immutable class Singleton class Hash code and equals method HashMap internal implementation. Difference between HashMap and Hashtable. Iterating a HashMap. Dependency Injection concept. MVC architecture. My project details. A simple SQL query for getting the maximum salary and the number of employees having that salary in a single query.

Round 3: F2F technical Project details. DI in depth. Hibernate concepts. JDBC Spring Template. Why I want to switch. It was not that tough. :)

Round 4: Versant test A telephonic round where you have to answer a robot's questions. You might have to repeat a sentence or speak for 20 seconds on a given topic. Very simple stuff.

I cleared all these rounds and am now waiting for the managerial round. The panels were not available at that time, so they asked me to wait until next week. Let's hope I clear that also.

After that, there is just an HR round.

I will update you once I attend them. 😊

1st Feb 2017: (Managerial Round) Today I got a call from HR for my Managerial Round. I had the option to take this from home or from the Deloitte office. I chose to attend this from home. It was a video conference call. HR shared the link for video conferencing.

Basically, they will ask you behavioral questions in this round. However, some managers ask technical questions as well, so be prepared.

For me, the following questions were asked:

Tell me about your academics and employment. Describe your role in your current project. What design patterns have you worked with? What is encapsulation? What are interfaces and abstract classes? When to use each? What is your career aspiration? Why Deloitte? Your current CTC and expected CTC. Do you have any questions?

I answered all of these questions. After some time, I got a call from HR stating that I had cleared it. I will get back to you for further steps.

Perhaps there is just an HR round left, and it will be telephonic.

I will update the details once I receive the call from them.

Thanks and best of luck.