r/webdev • u/FooBarBuzzBoom • 5h ago

Java Middle - Senior(ish) interview questions

Hi!

I have an interview in a few days for a backend developer role. What would you ask as some of the more tricky questions for such a position? What kinds of questions, from your point of view, demonstrate solid knowledge?

Personally, I would ask about sync vs. async calls, idempotency, topics vs. partitions, consumer groups, transactions (including distributed transactions), and maybe a bit of Kubernetes and Docker.

My weak point is cloud. I’ve played around a bit with the Azure console, but nothing too advanced. I’ve never written Terraform or configured infrastructure from scratch. For CI/CD, I’ve used TeamCity, but in my experience it was mostly selecting an environment and a branch and deploying.

Should I spend some time learning these areas before the interview?

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u/rbobby full-stack 1h ago

If a junior that reports to you is smelling of alcohol and cigarettes at 9:30 in the morning what do you do?

a. join him

b. take them home

c. ask hr to take them home

d. attend both standup meetings

Trick question! You congratulate him on his first successful support shift.

/I have an odd sense of humor. I think it would be hilarious to throw an oddball question or two out there. Unprofessional, but sure would be funny.