Lead Backend Developer Interview Questions

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Low level design two rounds High level design one round Questions about previous projects and the biggest challenges I faced till now etc. In LLD they will look for design patterns like event based architecture etc. In HLD I was asked to build a recommended products (people who bought this also bought) widget
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SDE-2 Backend

Interviewed at fabric

3.2
Dec 18, 2021

Low level design two rounds High level design one round Questions about previous projects and the biggest challenges I faced till now etc. In LLD they will look for design patterns like event based architecture etc. In HLD I was asked to build a recommended products (people who bought this also bought) widget

Round 1 Difference between equals() and == in java? Questions on java streams. How to design springboot application - explain layered architecture Eager and Lazy loading question in springboot and react Pagination and sorting JPA repo related questions Round 2 Coding question - Insert, delete, get random, minimum element within constant time. Use List (linked list implementation) and Map. System design question - design a live dashboard which shows data coming in key value pairs metrics from cell towers and detect and notify incase of any anomalies. Also get recent data based on timelines - Use Cassandra DB for key value pairs data storage, async processing for anomalies detection, apache spark DB for retrieving data based on timestamps.
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Backend Software Developer

Interviewed at Nokia

4
Dec 9, 2025

Round 1 Difference between equals() and == in java? Questions on java streams. How to design springboot application - explain layered architecture Eager and Lazy loading question in springboot and react Pagination and sorting JPA repo related questions Round 2 Coding question - Insert, delete, get random, minimum element within constant time. Use List (linked list implementation) and Map. System design question - design a live dashboard which shows data coming in key value pairs metrics from cell towers and detect and notify incase of any anomalies. Also get recent data based on timelines - Use Cassandra DB for key value pairs data storage, async processing for anomalies detection, apache spark DB for retrieving data based on timestamps.

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