Publicis Sapient Software Engineer interview experience

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NoidaPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process was two long rounds back-to-back, each about two hours, and it honestly felt intense.

The interviewer covered a wide range of topics and kept it moving across the stack I was interviewing for, not just one narrow area.

System design questions came up alongside deep technical topics across Java and backend engineering. I remember the breadth clearly: microservices, Spring Boot, AWS, Redis, Docker, databases, and messaging with Kafka. There was also a strong emphasis on low-level design and high-level design, so it wasn’t enough to name technologies—I had to think through how components would actually fit together.

Overall it landed in the difficult category for me. Even

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