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      Senior Java Developer Interview

      Jan 10, 2012
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Priceline.com in Dec 2011

      Interview

      Phone interview : Had simple java, some database, Javascript questions.Cleared the phone interview then was called in person. In Person interview : Questions were asked about architecture like Explain the architecture of your company operations. I told the we had a operations team to do that. But they were more interested in the servers and how they are deployed. then some questions were: 1. What is thrashing? 2. How to tune database? 3. How does hashing work? 4. What is the serial id , why is it needed? 5. Serialization and Externalization 6. Why to Synchronize 7.What is process and multithreading 8. Why wud u need an abstract class ? 9. why do u need to override equals with hashcode() Later had UI team to interview: 1.Write a program to display Buzz for 3 times value and Fizz for 5 times value for 1 to 100 2. Later they asked some normal td tr questions and I insisted that we use divs now a days. So advantages to use divs over td trs. 3. Validations in Struts 4. How to make the page load fast and many other simple questions

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Architecture of your current company ? Where are the service beans and UI servers. How are the servers maintained? How to detect the exceptions which don't affect the system , but are yet in the log
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