Lead Backend Developer Interview Questions

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The take-home assignment involved building a Ruby on Rails application and deploying it online. The task was intentionally open-ended, giving you room to interpret the requirements in your own way and later explain your reasoning during the follow-up discussion.
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Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Pennylane (France)

4.6
Oct 24, 2025

The take-home assignment involved building a Ruby on Rails application and deploying it online. The task was intentionally open-ended, giving you room to interpret the requirements in your own way and later explain your reasoning during the follow-up discussion.

How Transactions work in Hibernate? Difference between Lazy/Eager. Thread-safe design patterns/N+1 problem and how to solve it. different join types. Very deep details for Jpa/Hibernate and general differences for java versions
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Lead Backend Software Engineer

Interviewed at ZuluTrade

3.8
Feb 6, 2021

How Transactions work in Hibernate? Difference between Lazy/Eager. Thread-safe design patterns/N+1 problem and how to solve it. different join types. Very deep details for Jpa/Hibernate and general differences for java versions

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