I applied online. I interviewed at UKG (Noida) in July 2020
Interview
Interview process was smooth. There were 2 technical rounds and 1 technical-managerial round. Question were conceptual and covered different areas including Core Java including Java8, Coding, Database, Design Patterns, Web Services, Web Application Security, Spring Boot and MVC, Hibernate etc.
Interview questions [1]
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From Java questions were mainly from Collection framework to be written in Java8 like streams, comparator, predicate, parallelstream etc. Others were from Exception Handling, Multithreading and Strings.
Others were related to rest services, which design pattern have you used in project, filters in web application, authentication and authorization.
Criteria API in hibernate
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
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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.
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Asked about OOPs principles, collection, memory management, exception handling
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at UKG (Lowell, MA) in Aug 2025
Interview
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.