I set up a phone screen via Hired.com.

I expected the phone screen to be problem-solving, but it was just a ton of trivia questions about Java. I should have prepared more for that, but if you read the first half of Bruce Eckel's "Inside Java," you'll nail this phone screen.

They invited me for a second phone screen. Gotta be problem-solving now, right? Wrong.

First, the interviewer called from a speakerphone but said he didn't have any other phone, so I could barely hear him. Then, he launched into more trivia questions, many of them overlapping with the first interviewer. (Maybe this was a test to see if I learned from my mistakes?)

Oh, and their "scrum team" is 60 people, 45 of whom are contractors. I'm not upset I didn't move forward.

Java trivia questions:

• Private vs. protected
• Final
• How do you create a truly immutable class?
• What are some design patterns?