The interview process had three rounds spread over a few weeks.

• First round: Started with a quick introduction, then moved into an easy-to-medium DSA coding question. The interviewer was genuinely supportive, giving me a couple of nudges when I got stuck, which made it feel more like a conversation than an interrogation. After the coding part, we went through several technical deep-dives. The whole round ran about an hour and fifteen minutes. I felt good about it overall, though I'll admit I blanked on a couple of basics that I really should have nailed—a reminder not to skip fundamentals during prep. I heard back after about three weeks that I'd moved forward.
• Second technical round: More focused on the actual role and day-to-day work, which I found pretty straightforward.
• Final round: With the hiring manager. It was less of a grilling and more of a genuine conversation about team culture, how they work, and my background.

• Concurrency vs. parallelism and the difference in multithreading between Java and Python.
• Docker exec vs. start vs. run.
• What serialization and deserialization are and how they work.
• Questions related to the OpenShift ecosystem.