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"Senior software engineers are the most experienced member of a software team and usually carry the most responsibility and authority of that team. Because of this, interviews will be designed to find candidates who have expert knowledge of the field and years of experience as a software engineer. Expect to be asked tough technical questions and to give examples of previous projects that you have worked on."

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The interview questions themselves were rather odd. One was "what are the different scopes in Spring". Testing my ability to spout little-known facts isn't helpful to the process. A much better question would have been "what is Spring and why is it useful?" A solid engineer would be able to answer the second question, while anyone that can answer the first is simply good at memorizing things. There were more unhelpful questions like: "is Java pass-by-reference or pass-by-value"? "what's the difference between String and StringBuilder"? These are easy, but give very little insight into whether I'm a good engineer, which *should* be the goal of the interview.
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Senior Software Engineer

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Dec 19, 2014

The interview questions themselves were rather odd. One was "what are the different scopes in Spring". Testing my ability to spout little-known facts isn't helpful to the process. A much better question would have been "what is Spring and why is it useful?" A solid engineer would be able to answer the second question, while anyone that can answer the first is simply good at memorizing things. There were more unhelpful questions like: "is Java pass-by-reference or pass-by-value"? "what's the difference between String and StringBuilder"? These are easy, but give very little insight into whether I'm a good engineer, which *should* be the goal of the interview.

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