1st round Written test: on Strings and Array 2nd round General aptitude having ques on quant, lr, di. cheat sheet for math formulas provided. 1st technical Interview: > Tell me about yourself > what Modules of spring are used in your project > how spring and hibernate integrate > difference between hibernate and jpa > front end- jsp > java.util.concurrent package > what is marker interface? how to develop our own? do we extend or implement interfaces? serializable interface. > immutable? example class? how to develop our own immutable class? > jvm architecture - explain class loader and types; class area; memory areas- heap and stack; native stack and other parts. > dependency injection in spring. > lifecycle of spring bean. > why we follow pojo based programming in spring? > what is the role of SessionFactory in hibernate. > session methods- difference between load and get? > have you worked on xml. > webservices? > what is caching? > build tools- ant script, maven. how do you build your code? how to deploy/test the code(new feature) on your own machine? eclipse plugins or tools that help us follow coding guidelines. eg. 80 characters in a line limitations, but you wrote 81. > what design patterns have you used? how singleton class is used with static class. > inner static class. ************************************************************************************************************************** ***************************************** Interview sheet had 4 sections: 1. Core- OOPS, Collections, Serialization, I/O, Reflection, Generics, JDBC, JMX, SQL, Design patterns, Logging, Performance monitoring, memory management. 2. Tools/Technologies- (Build Tools- Ant/Maven/Jenkins); (SCM Tools- CVN/SVN, SCM Management, Static code analysis- SONAR/Checkstyle/PMD/FindBugs); Manual Reviews, Application servers, Database servers, Deployment 3.Frameworks- Spring, Hibernate/JPA, Struts, Caching, JavaScript/HTML/CSS/AJAX, JSON/XML 4. Java EE- JSP, Servlets, EJB/JTA, JSF, Webservices(SOAP,REST), JMS, Security, JavaEE design patterns, session management 2nd Round technical > tell me about yourself > Singleton design pattern > Difference between serialization and externalization > concurrenthashmap and hashmap > java.util.concurrent > build tools > difference between get and load > caching in hibernate. difference between 1st level cache and 2nd level cache. > how to use jdbc via spring. advantage? > find a string in a given string using pure logic. no methods. > struts? > jsp- various types of directives > no questions on prject or database hr > where do you live > what mom/dad do > why do you want to change