LTM Software Engineer interview experience

First came a core Java round where the discussion centered on OOP plus collections and multithreading. I remember it feeling like they were checking whether I could explain concepts, not just name them.

Next was a Spring Boot round focused on REST APIs and how they tie into JPA and microservices. The interviewer also touched on real-time scenarios, and there was some emphasis on how I’d think through typical backend design and implementation details. Sometimes a coding test was included in that flow, but the main thing I felt during this stage was that they wanted problem-solving with