Photon Interactive Team Lead Interview Questions and Answers

OOPs concepts are used in real life to model objects and their behavior.

• Encapsulation: A car's engine is encapsulated and can only be accessed through specific methods.

• Inheritance: A sports car is a type of car that inherits properties and methods from the car class.

• Polymorphism: A person can be a student, teacher, or employee, each with their own unique behavior.

• Abstraction: A TV remote has buttons that abstract the c...read more

Hashmap is a data structure that stores key-value pairs and uses hashing to locate values based on their keys.

• Hashmap uses an array of linked lists to store key-value pairs.

• The hash function is used to convert the key into an index of the array.

• If two keys have the same hash value, they are stored in the same linked list.

• Hashmap provides constant time complexity for insertion, deletion, and retrieval of values.

• Java's H...read more

Implemented the Observer design pattern.

• Used to maintain consistency between related objects

• Allows for one-to-many relationships between objects

• Used in event-driven systems

• Example: Used to update UI when data changes in backend

I have implemented a microservices architecture for scalability and flexibility.

• Implemented microservices architecture using Docker and Kubernetes

• Used API Gateway for routing and load balancing

• Implemented service discovery using Consul

• Implemented circuit breaker pattern using Hystrix

• Implemented centralized logging using ELK stack

• Implemented distributed tracing using Zipkin

• Implemented event-driven architecture using Kaf...read more

I improved stored procedure performance by optimizing queries and indexes.

• Identified and removed unnecessary joins and subqueries

• Used appropriate indexing to speed up query execution

• Reduced the number of round trips to the database by using batch processing

• Rewrote complex queries to simpler ones

• Used stored procedure parameters instead of variables to avoid recompilation

• Used SET NOCOUNT ON to reduce network traffic

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