Stripe phone screen question for Java
TC:220 YOE:4.5 Phone screen coming up next week. I plan to use IntelliJ because I heard that Coderpad is a pain to debug for Java. Is it okay if I prepare a boilerplate Spring project from start.spring.io with basic dependencies for junit, objectmapper, json, etc? Or will the interviewer giving me a boilerplate Java project to start with? Update: got invited to onsite #tech
Ask your interviewer when it starts, doing that takes a couple mins max
Just use IntelliJ. Make sure you have junit wired up. I just cleared it
How was the difficulty?
LC east to medium. There are 3 parts make sure to complete 2 at least. Code and then write real junit test. Other parts build on 1st part they are some what related questions
If you need boilerplate generator to do any of the phone screens I think you will have a tough time passing. I've seen many candidates get tripped up because they don't know how to actually write Java without having IntelliJ hold their hand
you realize that thing only generates files for dependency management right? how else do you expect a candidate to use external dependencies
I'm just saying, you can use whatever you need, but the fact you need boilerplate generator to solve the problems we would ask tells me you rely a bit much on tooling
Update: got invited to onsite
Did you end up using maven and junit and okhttp?
okhttp wasnt needed. but I did use gradle with junit dependency
How was your on-site interview exp ?
You don’t need Spring for phone screen
right, i'm not gonna use any spring depedencies; the website is just useful to generate boilerplate project