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Be ready to describe the architecture of systems you've worked on, including: Tech stack: Languages, frameworks, databases, cloud services (e.g., Java, Spring Boot, Redis, Kafka, AWS, etc.). System design principles: Microservices, monolith, event-driven, etc. Scalability & performance: How you handled load, caching strategies, and optimizations. Security: Authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection. Reliability & availability: HA (High Availability), failover mechanisms, monitoring/logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
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Backend Developer

Interviewed at Palo Alto Networks

3.8
Feb 18, 2025

Be ready to describe the architecture of systems you've worked on, including: Tech stack: Languages, frameworks, databases, cloud services (e.g., Java, Spring Boot, Redis, Kafka, AWS, etc.). System design principles: Microservices, monolith, event-driven, etc. Scalability & performance: How you handled load, caching strategies, and optimizations. Security: Authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection. Reliability & availability: HA (High Availability), failover mechanisms, monitoring/logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).

Questions were asked on Collections, lambda expressions, functional interfaces, oops concepts, springboot, rest services, annotations, sql queries and so on One of the three puzzles asked was There is pond which has lotus flowers in it. Each day the flowers count gets doubled. If the pond get full in 20 days, how many days will it take to fill half of the pond?
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Backend Java Developer

Interviewed at Sifars

4
Oct 19, 2021

Questions were asked on Collections, lambda expressions, functional interfaces, oops concepts, springboot, rest services, annotations, sql queries and so on One of the three puzzles asked was There is pond which has lotus flowers in it. Each day the flowers count gets doubled. If the pond get full in 20 days, how many days will it take to fill half of the pond?

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