Interview Drills - 3

These reps help you build a context for a deeper understanding of how your interviewer relates your knowledge to his needs.

Starting Topics

If you have interviewed recently, please feel free to make suggestions to list below

This is a prelimary list of topics in a preliminary format

• refactoring - how to do ane when and what it means
• containers - docker and dcontainers
• IOC - Inversion of Control Container
• singleton pattern
• gang of 4
• jvm
• what is the benefit of the singleton pattern on a server
• what is spring
• what category of tool is maven?
• what other tool competes with maven on the JVM?
• what other tools are like maven on other systems:
  • python: composer
  • c: make
  • javascript: npm and many others
• how to instantiate a program with maven
• how to write a unit test using right click
• what governs how you name a unit test?
• how many tests can you put inside a unit test?
• is there such a thing as a perfect test?
• what are some disadvantages of perfecting tests?:
  • takes forever to write
  • diminishing returns
  • sometimes takes longer to run
  • tests become brittle
• what is the name of broken functionality that was working?: regression
• when are unit tests run
• what is the usual expectation for a sprint deliverable?:
  • write the code
  • write the tests
  • tests run at build and all pass
  • commit as completed/tested
• what/where java naming conventions?
• class naming conventions if an interface exists: placeholderImpl
• the basic difference between noun classes (pojos) and verb classes (services)
• what services offer curated libaries for the enterprise?
• how do leetcode and similar sites play into the mix?
• What is the difference between FANG Facebook Amazon Netflix Google and more typical employers?
• what does it feel like to break the build?
• what does it feel like to break production?
• on the face of calculator which are services?
• this graphic describing concerns of your interviewer: https://thenewstack.io/observability-is-shifting-left-following-security-and-ops/
• what is happy path v edge case
• what are the 4 principles of object oriented programming?:
  • encapsulation
  • inheritance
  • polymorphism
  • abstraction
• how would you describe ... [inheritance] and how would you use it in an example
• how to tie in [unit testing] into another question?:
  • "when I am unit testing for" blah blah, "I look for"
  • "This is why I unit test for " blah blah "I look for"
  • "In my bootcamp assignments I did maybe 100 unit tests but only 7 or were " blah blah
  • that is a bit more like happy path programming
• how to tie in [dependency injection] into another question?: