Java · Senior · Theory

How does the bean lifecycle work in Spring, and how does dependency injection work? Tell me about design problems you've run into that were related to DI.

~4 min by voice

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This checks whether you understand what Spring does with a bean from definition to destruction and where exactly proxies appear. The second thing they look at: whether you can recognize design problems from DI symptoms (cycles, bloated constructors, scope mistakes) rather than just working around them.

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spring dependency injection

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The interviewer will ask this question and listen. Think out loud and ask for a hint if you need one. When you're done, pause or tap “That's my answer”. In about a minute, your score and the points you covered show up here.

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