There was a HackerRank coding test with 3 easy and one mid-level difficulty question.

The second round was person-to-person, which had one more coding question and a few theoretical questions.

The interviewer was a bit junior, which explained the "googled-up-10-minutes-before" type of questions. The theoretical questions were also not geared towards assessing the candidate, at least not at a senior level. That stuff is good for college freshers, but then they sent a junior person to run the interview.

He asked a couple of "stupid" Java questions:

• What's the difference between the final, finally, & finalize keywords?
• Why do we use Wrapper classes in Java?

And mind you, this was for a "Senior" position.

Then came a couple of questions on the Spring framework, including theoretical questions on the patterns the framework uses within its own implementation.

I was asked a generic, "googled-up-10-minutes-before-interview" question on Kafka (which I mentioned in my CV). Now, I don't quite know what the question meant, and I believe neither did the interviewer, because when I asked if I had answered it correctly, he didn't provide a proper response, unlike his feedback on the algorithm question, which he clearly had a grasp of.

I was asked to turn on my video, which he did not do. I found that a bit rude. However, my experience with Indian interviewers has so far been this way; there's no reason to hold him to a higher standard than average.

Overall, a pretty bad interview experience. I have interviewed at places before where I didn't get the job, yet I would have come out feeling it was a good experience. This one makes you a bit concerned about what kind of people handle your credit card.

What's the difference between the final, finally, and finalize keywords?