Shortlisted from an online test with questions from various skillsets, including Core Java, MySQL, Spring, Servlet, and Web Services, etc.

Then asked to appear for a face-to-face interview on a fine day.

My interview location was Chennai, at the Trident Hotel.

Multithread concepts, Comparable and Comparator differences, Bean lifecycle, How to make a class immutable, Where do you define a Servlet, Which is the starting point for a Spring framework. Explain MVC framework. Hashcode.equals functionality. How HashMap stores work internally.