Understanding a Technical Interview

The secret to success is just a dicey little recipe. Some confidence, presentation, personality mixed with a little amount of talent and lots and lots of pure basic knowledge. The secret recipe when taken in the right way can help you get around a lot of things, getting a job is one of them.


The IT sector due to its exponential expansion and aggressive competition has become a pool of talent hungry recruiters. Major IT companies are looking for people who can take as well us understand instructions given to them, and who are adaptable to the changing technological scenarios. Candidates with basic knowledge about dominant and well accepted working platforms are preferred. Stress is not only given on technical expertise but is also given on logical and analytical skills of a candidate.

In order to judge the candidate on various aspects, the recruitment procedure in IT companies is composed of various stages. The first stage is normally a general aptitude test comprising of both qualitative and quantitative aptitude questions. It's on the recruitment organization whether they include technical questions in the written test or not, so it is preferred that the candidate should prepare for written as well as for a technical interview. Some organizations might also bundle in some English questions, just to check your language skills.

After you've cleared the aptitude round you can take a sigh of relief but you shouldn't relax because on the other side lies final stages of the recruitment procedure; the interviews (You might have GD round also but the fashion in phasing out).

The interview can be further broken down into two phases, the technical and the HR interview. A technical interview can be centered on a lot of subjects like networking, operating systems, software engineering etc. but focus lies on the basics of the platform the organization works on, which in most of the cases is JAVA.
A java technical interview questions round composes of both; a round of core java interview questions (like java string interview questions, java threads interview questions etc) and a round of advance java interview questions (like java script interview questions, j2ee interview questions etc.)

Just to help you prepare well for your technical interview, some web portals have come up which would simulate a java interview and which also contain a number of sets of advance and core java interview questions and answers.
With the help of these mock interviews you can brush up your basics of the language and hence can get acquainted with the java technical questions before hand.

Some core java questions could be like,
1. What is a WeakHashMap?
2. When can an object's finalize() method be invoked
3. What is System, out and print in System.out.print.
Some advance java questions on the other hand would be like

1. Which of the following tags takes value attribute a java.util.List?
<h:selectManyCheckbox>
<h:selectManyMenu>
<f:selectItems>
<h:selectManyListbox>
<h:database>

2. What is bean in Spring?
3. What is dependency injections?

It is advised to try your hand at some mock java questions before going for the real thing, After all it is your career which is at stake.
</h:database></h:selectManyListbox></f:selectItems></h:selectManyMenu></h:selectManyCheckbox>