I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Target (Bengaluru) in Aug 2019
Interview
Applied via LinkedIn. Got a call. Got interview scheduled. Calendar invite wasn’t send. I got a random call. I told them to send a calendar invite first, they did it we talked after 2days.
Had just a telephonic exploratory round for 15 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What have you been working on?
Do you have exposure to CI/CD? What does spinnaker do?
Do you have exposure to infra? What are containers? what is kubernetes? What K8S do you use? Managed or your own?
Do you have REST API experience?
What’s the difference between path param & query param?
What error do you send when a resource is not available from path param?
How to differentiate from invalid path vs resource not found if both return 404?
What’s the throughput of your service?
Are you comfortable coding in java? Spring boot?
Do you write unit tests? How do you measure code coverage?
Have you ever mocked anything? what was it? Why do you mock something?
Given a RRST API Server if you’re bombarded with a millions of requests, what’d you do? How’d you identify there is a problem?
I believe there is a mismatch in profile and expectations, we work with service that has around 4Kps throughout. So are you interested in this profile? Are you ready to learn?
I applied online. I interviewed at Target in Mar 2026
Interview
Online coding assignment based on spring boot
Hiring manager round question on past project and concurrency in java
Pair programming round. They will give you a code which has bug. Even if your if solve it , it will not build and interviewer don't give a F.
I applied online. I interviewed at Target (Minneapolis, MN)
Interview
Initial tech screen is questions only. Know your Java, know about back-end development. Know about spring boot and annotations. They are a Java shop and they will ask these questions.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Target in Jul 2024
Interview
Interview process took three rounds over three weeks.
First round: Technical discussion only theoretical.
Second round: Problem solving and theory.
Third round: Design and Problem solving. Deep dive in projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Problem solving : 1. Find if the given tree A is a subtree of given tree B.
2. Pseudocode to convert string to number without using library or Integer.parseInt().
Eg string: "1234.56"
3. What is the internal working of hashmap.
4. What is the internal working of elastic search.