I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Standard Chartered Bank (London, England) in Sep 2025
Interview
Typical rounds: coding, system design, behavioral. Be prepared for deep knowledge of Java, data structures, multithreading, concurency. Study distributed systems design: databases, caches, failure modes, idempotency, cap theorem. Also communication is very important, collect requirements, think out loudly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about synchronized, locks, hashmap, hashsets in Java. Writing code that is thread safe (concurrent cache) in Java.
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