Accenture Java Developer — deep Core Java and Hibernate, still a no

## Background
3.3 years of experience, interviewing for a Java Developer role. Two rounds.

## Round-by-round

### Round 1 — Core Java
Fundamentals in good depth:
- Method **overloading vs overriding**
- How **private and static methods** behave with visibility and inheritance, and access modifiers
- How the **JVM** works, Java's **platform independence**, and the **String Pool** mechanism
- **Exception handling** — checked vs unchecked, writing a custom exception, `throw` vs `throws`
- **Java 8+** features — functional interfaces, default methods in interfaces, and Stream API operations like **`map` vs `flatMap`**

### Round 2 — Spring Boot & Hibernate
Shifted to the framework side: **`@Controller` vs `@RestController`**, **CORS** and why it matters in API design, and **`@PathVariable` vs `@RequestParam`**. On the Hibernate side — **ORM** concepts, **eager vs lazy** fetching, and **`get()` vs `load()`**. It closed with a brief, high-level discussion on **microservices** architecture and a few HR questions at the end.

## Verdict
**Rejected.**