The interview process was very fine and open, with 4 rounds. The topics covered were:

• Introduction of myself
• @RestController vs @Controller
• Dependency Injection
• Bean scopes
• What is Spring Boot & its advantages
• Write a SQL query to get all records from 2 tables which qualify a condition.
• JSP tags
• Other Spring Boot annotations I use
• What is SOAP

Introduction:

• Introduce myself.

Recent Project:

• What I did in a recent project.
• Team size.
• My role.

Java:

• What I found interesting in Java compared to other languages.
• Lifecycle of a thread.
• Multithreading and its cost.
• Experience writing multithreaded programming.
• Sleep vs. Wait.
• Volatile.
• Synchronize.

Spring:

• Bean: How many types of beans?
• MVC model.
• Explain how DispatcherServlet handles an HTTP request.
• How Spring handles concurrent requests modifying the same database.

Project Experience:

• Achievement/difficulty in one of my projects.

Testing:

• What I use for testing.
• What I should do when any of the test cases fail.