Accenture Technology Software Engineer interview: Java, Spring Boot, and role mismatch

The interview focused heavily on Core Java and Spring Boot. I discussed Java OOP and concurrency, including multithreading, executor services, volatile, race conditions, and deadlocks. We also covered controller and rest controller annotations, the N+1 query problem, and eager versus lazy loading. There was a stream-related coding question as well. The experience was not smooth throughout. In one…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.