EPAM Systems·Software Engineer

EPAM Systems Software Engineer interview experience

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PunePosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My technical interview leaned hard into real backend system design and edge cases.

The questions were tricky and covered microservices architecture in depth, including Kafka concerns like consumer failure handling and fallback strategies. I also had to think through REST API design, including writing a POST endpoint and dealing with the right kinds of error codes.

From there, it moved into Spring Boot topics like exception handling in an API gateway, and I was asked about load balancing and circuit breaker behavior. The most demanding part was the distributed systems angle—distributed transactions using the SAGA pattern came up directly.

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