I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at EPAM Systems in Apr 2025
Interview
Entrevista muy poco natural. El entrevistador tenía conocimientos técnicos pero se notaba que seguía un guíon (e.g. llegué a hablar mucho sobre las Messaging Queues un par de veces porque las uso mucho, y unos minutos después me pregunta "Sabes que son las Messaging Queues?").
También se notaba muy poca atención sobre la entrevista y era aparente que no quería estar en la llamada. El entrevistador frecuentemente volteaba a hablar con alguien más mientras yo estaba dando mis respuestas.
Despues de 45 min de preguntas, me pusieron un problema de leetcode (creo que de nivel fácil) pero me quedó tan poquito tiempo para resolverlo que no había manera de completarlo al menos que ya me supiera la respuesta de memoria.
NOTA: La entrevista fue 100% en inglés, de principio a fin, aunque se notaba que el entrevistador hablaba español.
No diría que la entrevista fué exactamente "dificil", pero si tediosa, aburrida e injusta. Al final me ghostearon completamente. No hubo feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solo recuerdo las preguntas más tediosas:
* SOLID y explica cada letra.
* ACID y explica cada letra.
* Isolation Levels
* Leadership Basic Concepts ???
* Explica WHERE vs HAVING en MySQL
* Conceptos Messaging (pubsub vs point to point)
* Microservice Scalability
* Qué tipo de base de datos NoSQL es MongoDB? (de documentos?)
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Pune) in May 2026
Interview
Total time waste, and highly unprofessional behavior.
The process started with initial discussion with TA/HR. Then was first technical round for 1.5 hours which included my experiences so far, project details, Python questions, advanced concepts of AI, ML, Python and Cloud. Then was live coding - design LRU cache; recursive function problem.
Then I was scheduled after two weeks for the managerial round. However, in that round also they asked full technical questions and did a live coding again (Que- design singleton class; sliding window problem). This round also lasted 1.5 hours.
After 1 week, I was informed that I cleared second round also, and was scheduled for third round (supposed to be managerial). This was rescheduled twice due to managers unavailability and then abruptly cancelled third time.
Now that HR is not responding to my calls, emails and messages.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st technical round : design LRU cache; recursive function problem
2nd technical round : design singleton class; sliding window problem; system design for Instagram like app. (asked to use Azure services)
Interview with tech manager focusing on previous jobs and experience. Some C++ questions like:
-diamond problem
-move semantics
-exceptions handling
-STL containers
-alg complexitiy
Additional discussion about future plans and possibilities to grow inside the company,
I applied online. I interviewed at EPAM Systems in Dec 2025
Interview
The interview process consisted of a single technical round conducted virtually.
The interviewer started with basic Java concepts, then moved on to Java 8 (Streams & Collections), followed by a DSA problem, and ended with an SQL query.
The discussion was interactive, with follow-up questions on edge cases, time complexity, and approach.
Overall, the interview focused more on problem-solving and core fundamentals rather than frameworks
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Java 8 Streams: Group employees by department and find the highest-paid employee per group.