FIS Software Engineer interview experience

In the technical portion, the focus landed on core Java plus Spring Boot and Hibernate. Once I moved into the techno-manager discussion, the questions leaned hard into how Spring Boot and microservices architecture works for a real project.

I explained how communication happens between microservices and also talked through multiple ways services can interact. There were scenario-style probes around distributed transactions—like what I’d do if one microservice’s operation depended on another’s and how I’d try to keep the overall transaction successful. I also covered topics like service