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Interview Prep · Phase 7

Interview Strategy & Rounds

The rounds themselves: the coding screen and the handful of patterns it keeps reusing, the Spring question bank, backend system design under a whiteboard clock, behavioural answers that survive follow-up questions, and an eight-week plan that fits around a full-time job.

Intermediate7 min read

The Coding Round: Patterns That Keep Coming Back

The six patterns that cover most coding-screen questions, with Java templates, the language-specific traps that cost points, and how to talk while you code without losing your place.

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Intermediate7 min read

Spring & Spring Boot Interview Questions

The Spring questions asked at every level answered with mechanisms: how auto-configuration decides, why self-invocation breaks @Transactional, proxy modes, bean scopes and testing slices.

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Advanced8 min read

System Design for Java Backend Engineers

A 45-minute structure that works: clarify and estimate, data model first, then the API, then scale what the numbers say to scale — plus idempotency, the outbox pattern and talking in numbers.

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Beginner8 min read

The Behavioural Round: STAR Stories for Engineers

Why the behavioural round is scored harder than candidates expect, the six stories that cover almost every question, how to quantify impact honestly, and surviving the follow-up questions.

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Beginner7 min read

The Eight-Week Preparation Plan

A week-by-week plan that fits into eight hours a week: what to cover when, how to use spaced repetition on the topics you forget, when to start applying, and how to handle the offer stage.

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