An applied AI Software Engineer interview experience

I first went through an initial HR screening, and after that I moved into a technical assessment. From there, I ended up with three panel rounds—two technical interviews and one techno-managerial discussion—and each round lasted about 45 minutes.

Across the technical parts, the topics were very hands-on and design-minded. I was asked about equals and hashCode, dependency injection and testability, and OOP design principles, plus debugging and JVM behavior like object promotion. There was also a Java coding exercise where I worked on implementing something like a workout management flow—then