EPAM Systems·Software Engineer

EPAM Systems Software Engineer interview experience

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Kuala LumpurPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with a recruiter-to-technical flow that quickly became very deep on the backend stack.

The technical interview lasted about ninety minutes and felt like it was built around Spring and distributed systems. I was pulled into questions on Spring Data JPA and Kafka, then moved into Java 8 functional interfaces and Spring Boot concepts. I had to explain microservices architecture and go down to the practical level: how microservices communicate, how security is implemented, and what JWT is. I also had to talk through how a service validates a JWT token, what happens if roles change after issuance, and how you get the current logged-in user in Spring Security.

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