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      One Out of: Java and .NET (Developer) Or Solution Architect (Not Decided) Interview

      8 Oct 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Melbourne
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at DWS (Melbourne) in Sept 2012

      Interview

      After submitted application: One phone interview by HR person; face-to-face interview by HR person; technical test; peer (technical) interview, in my case actually a phone interview; reference check, salary and start date negotiations, hiring. Interestingly, in the first face-to-face interview, it was said that if the test was good, I would not have to sit another technical interview, which turned out to be untrue, I did need a technical interview after the test. In this description, I cover only the second (technical) interview. I happened to have been taken down as a Java developer while I came more from a .Net background (my Java was 5 years ago), and so was interviewed by a Java developer, which made the interview difficult. The interviewer only asked very high-level, abstract questions, and still it was difficult to find common ground.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      What does ORM mean? What are the advantages of using an ORM? What are some commercially available ORMs?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      What is unit testing? How do I go about writing a unit test? Do I focus a unit test on a class or a method? Would I write one or more tests per method? What are some unit testing frameworks?
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      How would I approach a legacy system?
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      When I have a legacy method and need to change it, how would I do that? How do I make sure that I don't break anything?
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      What is Dependency Injection? How would I go about using it in "day to day programming"?
      1 Answer
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