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In the interview, one of the main things they asked me was to explain a project I had worked on in detail. They wanted to know how I approached the problem, what technologies I used, and how I handled errors or challenges during development. They were mainly checking my understanding of the logic behind the project and whether I could clearly explain my thought process.
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Junior Software Engineer

Interviewed at EPAM Systems

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Nov 28, 2025

In the interview, one of the main things they asked me was to explain a project I had worked on in detail. They wanted to know how I approached the problem, what technologies I used, and how I handled errors or challenges during development. They were mainly checking my understanding of the logic behind the project and whether I could clearly explain my thought process.

OOP and DB concepts (SOLID, ACID, What is a transaction?, What inversion of control means?). How Spring boot works? (bean factory, types of beans, How spring handled requests?). Java in general (Streams , Generics, Collection interface, garbage collector). Cooding questions ( easy HashSet problems)
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Junior Software Engineer

Interviewed at EPAM Systems

4
May 26, 2024

OOP and DB concepts (SOLID, ACID, What is a transaction?, What inversion of control means?). How Spring boot works? (bean factory, types of beans, How spring handled requests?). Java in general (Streams , Generics, Collection interface, garbage collector). Cooding questions ( easy HashSet problems)

They asked me to write an algorythm on a whiteboard to solve the coin change problem (use the least coins possible to pay) and i had to walk with them through my code and work out the different ways it could have been done. I also got UML diagrams on paper and i had to briefly tell them what the diagram was about, and there were some basic questions on databases as well.
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Junior Software Engineer

Interviewed at EPAM Systems

4
Nov 4, 2016

They asked me to write an algorythm on a whiteboard to solve the coin change problem (use the least coins possible to pay) and i had to walk with them through my code and work out the different ways it could have been done. I also got UML diagrams on paper and i had to briefly tell them what the diagram was about, and there were some basic questions on databases as well.

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