OpenText·Software Engineer

OpenText Software Engineer interview experience

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Ottawa, ONPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a long, same-day face-to-face sequence where the rounds stacked quickly and the scope kept expanding.

The first part was heavy on core Java topics and deep language concepts—collections, string manipulation without relying on built-ins, character frequency counting, and even questions about what changes if you don’t override equals and hashcode. I also got asked about class loading, including how to think about a custom class loader, and the discussion moved into Spring Boot topics like annotations and handling file uploads in REST.

The technical depth kept going into microservices design patterns, multi-threading, and some cloud-related basics. Then the senior-management and director-level

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