The surprising part: During the Technical Screening round, I was asked questions like:
How do you deploy a Spring Boot application in production?
What is Spring Boot Actuator, and how do you do health checks?
What is the N+1 problem in Hibernate?
How can you speed up a Spring Boot app in production?
These are good technical questions, but it was unexpected coming from an HR professional. During an HR screening round.
At the end, I was told they are looking for experienced candidates, even though it was clearly a fresher role.