Initial contact through recruiter. Then had a technical interview . Interview was ok .
1st technical interview
Questions Asked:
Difference between Spring and Spring Boot
Different bean scopes in spring
How do you move spring configurations from one environment to another
What are all the HTTP methods
Features of Spring
Difference between Spring JPA and Hibernate
Different spring modules used in the project
Design patters used in Spring
Different OOP design patterns
Different data structures used in your project
sorting scenario with list of objects
Map implementations
Hash map
DB related questions -Different joins
foreign key
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
1st technical interview
Questions Asked:
Difference between Spring and Spring Boot
Different bean scopes in spring
How do you move spring configurations from one environment to another
What are all the HTTP methods
Features of Spring
Difference between Spring JPA and Hibernate
Different spring modules used in the project
Design patters used in Spring
Different OOP design patterns
Different data structures used in your project
sorting scenario with list of objects
Map implementations
Hash map
DB related questions -Different joins
foreign key
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso UKG (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Colloquio
Online coding assessment on random algorithm and data structure questions. Then in person interview with basic html and sql questions, followed up by a white board coding interview. Problem was on the easy side. Function that receives two lists and returns the max between the two
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
What is a tag in html. What is a left join in sql. Then technical discussion about the specific role
Overall the interview wasn't that much tough, you should know the basics of java and spring boot and Java memory management and it should be enough and in the end interviewer also asked some aptitude based questions.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Asked about OOPs principles, collection, memory management, exception handling
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso UKG (Lowell, MA) nel mese di ago 2025
Colloquio
Applied via a UKG recruiter. The process started with an online assessment that included 2 coding questions and 1 SQL problem. After completing that, I had a recruiter screening. The recruiter emphasized that their hiring process was “META-level” and that they bring on FAANG-level engineers. However, the salary offered was extremely low—honestly, even interns at big tech companies get paid more.
After the screening, I followed up but received no responses and was eventually ghosted. About a month later, I got an automated rejection email.
Overall, a very disappointing experience: lengthy process, unrealistic bragging, poor compensation, and lack of professionalism in communication.
