I recently interviewed for a technical role, and the experience did not quite live up to my expectations. The main issue started with communication. It was a bit tough to understand the interviewer clearly, so I found myself asking him to repeat his questions multiple times throughout our conversation. The coding round also felt a bit rushed. I was given two problems and had only 10 minutes for each, which made it hard to reach the required optimal O(n) solutions. For the first problem, a new condition was added after I had already finished my logic. Since the company values the overall approach, this sudden change and the tight clock felt a bit unreasonable. Lastly, the interviewer seemed a bit distracted while I was working. He checked his phone a few times and even stepped out of the room while I was coding. It would have been a lot more encouraging to see a bit more engagement during the session.

9 years experience Java, AWS Interview Topics: JVM, SOLID, JMM, Spring Boot, Kafka, K8s, Architectural and LLD questions. 1 coding round, 2 Technical rounds and a client round In coding round easy difficulty leetcode question and a stream API question were asked. 1st technical round was good and mostly focused on my resume and work experience, along with System Design and SOLID principles. 2nd technical round mostly tried to question on theoretical knowledge along with a medium difficulty leetcode question. No discussion on project experience and behavioral question, which was disappointing. Till the interview was getting cleared, I was getting calls from TA. After my last round, there is no update from TA team.

If you have another interview lined up on the same day so please avoid epam interview as it will take your 4 rounds of 1.30 hrs each and in last 4th round they will reject you as not technical fit... so better attend 4-5 another interviews instead of wasting time with EPAM...