I applied through other source. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg)
Interview
I have applied for a junior Java developer position, with some courses behind (in Russia). Almost 9 months I have to earn my skills, with EPAM's help and absolutely free. Of course, 5 of them were a production experience with no fee.
To apply for this job there were 3 steps of an interview. First of all, you have to answer the call and answer some technical questions (very simple) and tell about yourself (in English, of course). Secondly, you have to pass a technical interview. Questions were simple, almost about java core (syntax, OOP, etc). And the last one was a check your English level (write a letter and a "small talk" with a teacher).
After all, after 9 months, there was a big technical interview (2 hours) before a job offer. This one included a theoretical part and two (sometimes more) practical tasks. You need to know Spring, Hibernate, Java Core (with concurrency), Stream API, JDBC, any CI/CD, GIT, SQL. All that knowledge you can get through 9 months of EPAM courses.
This all worth it.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Name a Hibernate issue and describe how to fix it.
They started of with linked lists, design linked list get, put , delete from scratch and then find middle of linked list, followed by SQL queries easy level, in depth discussion of projects
First round was OA - It included aptitude, OS, CN and coding questions
Then there was a pen paper coding test- It was conducted in our college's auditorium where we were provided a LRU cache question and we had to write its solution on paper
Then there was a GD round - the evaluator was very flexible and asked us to choose the topic by ourselves
After GD round technical interview was conducted - dsa, dbms, os, cn, coding
Then there was HR round finally
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Delete a node in linked list but you have no access to head
LRU cache
I applied in-person. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Pune)
Interview
The process was smooth when applied to the Naukri link
Round 1 - Technical assessment (DoSelect) cleared - medium
Round 2 - Nodal location test (Pune)
Written coding test on DSA - HashMap, Parking Lot question cleared - medium (cutoff - 100/400)
Round 3 - GD (AI effects on UPI) - added on spot round - group of 10 (cutoff - 7/10)
Round 4 - Technical interview, one-on-one resume grill, project, cross-questioning, Java, Core Java
Round 5 - optional HR orund