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Interview Questions (6+ Years)

The document contains a comprehensive list of interview questions for Java and Python developers with over 6 years of experience. It covers various topics including microservices design, dependency injection, concurrency issues, REST API versioning, and performance optimization in Java, as well as distributed systems, scalability, and security practices in Python. Each question is aimed at assessing the candidate's technical knowledge and practical experience in their respective programming languages.

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Interview Questions (6+ Years)

The document contains a comprehensive list of interview questions for Java and Python developers with over 6 years of experience. It covers various topics including microservices design, dependency injection, concurrency issues, REST API versioning, and performance optimization in Java, as well as distributed systems, scalability, and security practices in Python. Each question is aimed at assessing the candidate's technical knowledge and practical experience in their respective programming languages.

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Java Interview Questions (6+ Years Experience)

1. How would you design a scalable microservice in Java? What frameworks and tools
would you use?
2. Explain how Dependency Injection works in Spring. What are the benefits?
3. What are design patterns you’ve used in real-world Java applications?
4. Compare Monolith vs Microservices architecture from a Java developer’s
perspective.
5. How do you handle versioning in REST APIs with Spring Boot?
6. How do you detect and fix concurrency issues in a large Java application?
7. Explain Fork/Join Framework. How is it different from ExecutorService?
8. How would you implement a thread-safe LRU Cache in Java?
9. What tools do you use to monitor Java performance in production?
10. How do you reduce GC pauses in a high-performance Java application?
11. What is the difference between CMS, G1, and ZGC garbage collectors?
12. How do you perform JVM tuning for a high-throughput application?
13. Explain how Java memory is structured (Heap, Stack, Metaspace).
14. How do you diagnose OutOfMemoryError or StackOverflowError?
15. Explain the difference between reactive programming and traditional imperative
programming in Java.
16. What is the difference between CompletableFuture and Future?
17. How does Java handle backpressure in reactive systems?
18. Have you worked with Kafka or any message brokers in Java applications? Explain
your implementation.
19. What are some pitfalls of using reflection in Java?
20. What security practices do you follow in Java applications (e.g., input
validation, OWASP)?

Python Interview Questions (6+ Years Experience)

1. How do you design a distributed Python-based system (e.g., using Celery,


RabbitMQ, etc.)?
2. Explain how you handle scalability and load balancing in a Python-based web app.
3. What are the pros and cons of using Django vs FastAPI for large-scale
applications?
4. How do you structure a large Python codebase to ensure maintainability?
5. What are key considerations when building a RESTful API in Python?
6. How do you profile and optimize CPU- or memory-intensive Python code?
7. How would you reduce latency in an I/O-bound Python app?
8. What are memory leaks in Python and how do you find/fix them?
9. How do you optimize performance in pandas or NumPy for big datasets?
10. How would you implement caching in Python to reduce DB calls?
11. Compare threading, multiprocessing, and asyncio. When would you use each?
12. How do you handle concurrency in web applications built with Python?
13. What are race conditions, and how would you prevent them in Python?
14. How would you implement a producer-consumer pattern in Python?
15. What are metaclasses and how have you used them?
16. How do you implement decorators that accept arguments?
17. Explain context managers. How would you write a custom one?
18. Have you ever used Cython or written Python extensions in C/C++?
19. How do you secure a Python web application? (e.g., XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF)
20. Describe your experience with DevOps practices in Python projects (CI/CD,
Docker, Kubernetes).

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