Part 1: I was approached by the HR unit for a Java developer position. Three weeks later, I went through a telephonic round on core Java and, being a web developer, Struts. Typical interview questions included:

• What are the different design patterns in Struts? (And a 15-minute Q&A on it.)
• What are the different methods of object creation?
• How would you handle the back button in a real web application?

I couldn't answer them all, but I cleared because I reasoned my answers.

Part 2: A week later, I was called for a face-to-face interview. They didn't make me wait long. The questions were decent, basically on my daily work. For example: What is your application structure? How do you depict association in UML, etc.

Part 3: I had one final round with a senior manager. This one dealt with more questions about my past work experience and some good coding practices.

A thing to note was that I was interviewed by three different people for a position that requires me to write code, and not once was I asked to actually write code!

If a page has to add an extra field for one client only, where would you place that logic and why?