Senior Backend Java Engineer Interview Experience - Budapest
Process
I applied online. The process took 1 day.
It was a 1-hour coding interview on HackerRank with 2 interviewers. When I started to code, they asked questions regarding the implementation before or at the coding phase. They tried to help, but they didn't even give time to think about the overall solution. The data structure was a little bit more than I first thought. So the help was not a help for me, but a barrier mostly to be able to think of the whole implementation. The time was not enough in these circumstances.
Questions
Circuit breaker implementation in Java:
Service A calls service B and service C every time. If one service fails 3 times in 10 minutes (or 20 seconds in the implementation), the next call will be blocked for 5 minutes (10 seconds in the implementation).
There was given a simulation of remote method calls, and I needed to implement only the execute() method, which calls the remote service if possible.
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