13 questions · from 1 interviews

S&pglobal interview questions

Every question candidates reported from their S&pglobal interviews, most frequently asked first. Each links to the write-up it came from, so you can see the round and how it went.

S&pglobal coding and DSA questions

  1. 01

    Merge k Sorted Lists

    Merge k sorted linked lists into one sorted list.

    Hard · From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

  2. 02

    Iterator Modification in For-Each Loop

    Discuss what happens when list.add() or list.remove() are used inside a Java for-each loop and how to avoid such issues.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

S&pglobal system design questions

  1. 01

    Executor Framework & Thread Pool Sizing

    Discuss experience with the Java Executor Framework, specific thread pools used, and how to determine the number of threads for 1000 tasks in a fixed thread pool.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

  2. 02

    Spring Security: JWT Token Invalidation

    How to invalidate a JWT token using Spring Security.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

  3. 03

    Observer Pattern vs. Kafka

    Explain the Observer Design Pattern and compare its principles to how Kafka works.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

  4. 04

    In-Memory Cache

    Discuss concepts and implementation of an In-Memory Cache.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

S&pglobal other questions

  1. 01

    Java 8 New Features

    Discuss new features introduced in Java 8.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

  2. 02

    Stream API: toList() vs collect(Collectors.toList())

    Explain the difference between Stream.toList() and Stream.collect(Collectors.toList()) in Java's Stream API.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

  3. 03

    Fail Fast vs. Fail Safe Iterators

    Explain the concepts of Fail Fast and Fail Safe Iterators in Java.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

  4. 04

    Collections.sort() Algorithm

    Identify which sorting algorithm is used internally by Collections.sort() in Java.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

  5. 05

    Concurrent HashMap Internals

    Explain the internal working mechanism of ConcurrentHashMap.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

  6. 06

    Completable Future

    Discuss CompletableFuture in Java for asynchronous programming.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

  7. 07

    Builder Pattern

    Explain the Builder Design Pattern.

    From S&PGlobal || Senior Software Engineer| | Interview Experience

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What questions are asked in S&pglobal interviews?

Candidates reported 13 distinct questions across 1 S&pglobal interviews. 2 coding and DSA questions, 4 system design questions, 7 other questions.