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Java Lead Interview Experience - Atlanta, Georgia

February 1, 2014
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Got a call from the Talent Acquisition team for an initial screen. They asked for my expected compensation and explained their benefits structure. She told me that she would schedule an interview with the hiring manager.

After a week, I received a call from the hiring manager for a 1-hour interview. All questions were situational, and he was writing down everything I said.

After 3 weeks, I received a call for a face-to-face interview in the Atlanta office. The interview was with two hiring managers and included a written technical test. He told me the written technical test was something new they had introduced recently.

No correspondence since then. Waiting for a yay or nay.

Questions

Interview questions are all behavioral.

Like things you didn't like about your ex-manager, why? Describe a project that you didn't want to work on, but you had to, and how did you cope. Describe the most challenging project you have worked on. Describe a situation where you changed or influenced the team's opinion about something. Describe the estimation process you have used to estimate tasks.

Java Written Test:

  • Write a function to recursively calculate the Fibonacci series.
  • Write a function to reverse a string.
  • Write a function to check if a given string is a palindrome.
  • Write a function to remove duplicates from a sorted array.

SQL: Given a table of Employee and department with different fields:

Write a query to show the total employee count in each department. Write a query to show all departments and the list of employees in each department. Write a query to show a list of departments with more than 10 employees.

I was surprised there was no technical interview for this position, even though the hiring manager told me that the job requires 70% coding and 30% team leadership.

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