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04: Can you think of a time where you …?

It really pays to jog your memory prior to job interviews to ace the open-ended questions like…… Q1. Can you think of a time where you accomplished QuickWins for your…



15 slacknesses or lack of experience that can come back & bite you in the back

Production issues seek the attention of middle and top level management. Often these are intermittent issues that are harder to reproduce in lower environments without the right know-hows & tools. Some will shrug it off as “Cannot be reproduced“, whilst others will seize the opportunity to showcase their technical strengths & know hows to go places.…



3 key “How would you go about …” Q&As to judge Java experience

Q1. How would you go about judging the code quality of other developers? A1. 1) Code written with unit tests and progressively re-factored where necessary to make it more maintainable,…



30+ Java Code Review Checklist Items

This Java code review checklist is not only useful during code reviews, but also to answer an important Java job interview question,

Q. How would you go about evaluating code quality of others’ work?

You also learn a lot from peer code reviews. What has been written well? Why was it done this way?…



8 real life Java scenarios with Situation-Action-Result (i.e. SAR) technique

The SAR (Situation-Action-Result) technique is very useful to tackle open-ended questions like:

1. What were some of the challenges you had encountered, and how did you go about fixing them?
2. What are some of your achievements that you are most proud of?
3. Why do you like software engineering?…



8 real life Scenarios of SAR technique – Part 2

The open-ended questions give you a great opportunity to promote your strengths and accomplishments. SAR (Situation-Action-Result) technique examples. This extends 1 – 4 real life examples of SAR technique. Example…



Ensuring code quality in Java Q&As

Q1. How do you ensure code quality in your application? A1. Code quality means writing readable, maintainable and robust code, that conforms as much as possible to the style-guideline that…



800+ Java & Big Data Interview Q&As

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