EPAM India Software Engineer interview: Spring Security, tracing and Python internals

After the recruiter stage, I had a technical interview of about ninety minutes that went deeply into Spring and distributed systems. I discussed Spring Data JPA, Kafka, Java 8 functional interfaces and Spring Boot. For microservices, I explained the architecture, how services communicate and how security works. JWT questions went into detail: what a token is, how a service validates it, what happ…

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