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1. 1.Walk me through the architecture of a system you built. What would you change today?technical

   Why they ask: Design judgement.

   How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.

2. 2.How do you make a slow endpoint fast?technical

   Why they ask: Debugging method.

   How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.

3. 3.How do you test code you are about to ship?technical

   Why they ask: Quality habits.

   How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.

4. 4.How have you used Java in production, and what went wrong at least once?technical

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