The bank of America is invites candidates for interview process after written exam. Java is best suitable language due to its flexibility and high performance. It is best suitable for big enterprise application to small processing application development.

As a interviewer bank is always try to gauge candidate on these basic java fundamental topics. These topics are very common to for any java related interview.

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These topics are mainly asked in java interview questions.
Threading \ Concurrency
Java Collections
OOPS concept
Features of java 1.5 and understanding of changes
Spring \ Hibernate basics
JMS
XML parsing
Java application profiling
Database concepts
Testing practise [ junit \ , mock testing]

Bank of America Java Interview Questions and Answers:

It was my second round of the java technical interview. I did research on interviewer and figured out his strong area and prepared more on that area. pleasant surprise was Interviewer asked the questions in same topic. see how this interview goes.
1) Tell me about your current project and what are you doing?
I had explained my project and told it is java based middle tier trade processing application which provide processing capability to .net client and external clients.
2) From first question they asked another 2 questions
How your client is talking to MT java?
why you are using web service? what is bottleneck?
what are other ways to do communications?
3) problem solving .. get the random list of 0..9 in java with no duplicates?
4) from question 3 they asked another few questions, why are you using HashSet to store data, why not list?
5) how hashset store the data and how it is different than arraylist?
6) have you worked in java 1.6 or java 1.7? what is difference in java 1.5 and 1.4?
7) whats is enums and can we extend them ? can we override the mehtod in enum?
8) What is locks ? explain concurrent hashmap?
9) what need to be taken care on storing data in hashmap? how we will get best performance?
10) what will happen if the keys are same in hashmap, what is key collision?
11) what is overloading and overriding?
12) another problem solving question.. write routine to sqrt the integer 12345?
13) how to make sure the message will be processed in JMS? how persistence is implemented?
14) what need to be taken care when we work on java application performance?
15) Design pattern : which all design pattern you have worked and difference in factory and abstract factory design pattern?
16) What is decorator design pattern?

Process of selection:

Test
Resume Shortlist
HR Interview
Group Activity

Round 1 Test
Duration 75 minutes Minutes

Test Sections
Section 1: Verbal Ability
Section 2: Basic Programming
Section 3: Quant aptitude
Section 4: Logical Reasoning

HR Interview
Interview Questions
Question 1: Why finance? Why not your core branch?
Question 2: Questions regarding financial instruments like derivatives, forwards-futures, options etc
Question 3: How would you fit in? (give me some reasons to hire you)
Question 4: Some highlights from your resume?
Question 5: What does Bank of America do?
Question 6: What is investment banking?