Synechron Software Engineer interview experience

In the first round, I was asked standard Java-related questions along with Spring Boot and SQL, plus data structure topics. The second round shifted into scenario-based questions, where they probed how I’d think through Java and Spring Boot problems, and it also touched on multithreading, microservices, and monitoring.

What stood out, though, was that at least one of the interviews felt misaligned with what it claimed to evaluate. The interviewer asked questions that felt illogical to me—like comparing index types under specific constraints—and then repeatedly followed up on every answer