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DevSkiller’s team creates Gradle interview questions aimed at recruiting only the best Gradle engineers. Our tests are uniquely structured to assess the skills of junior, mid-level and senior candidates.

Perhaps you’re familiar with RealLifeTesting™ – a unique testing methodology we implement into all our Gradle tests. We use RealLifeTesting™ to replicate real-world scenarios and present candidates with realistic challenges, similar to those they face everyday. We can ensure our clients hire only the best developers. Find your next developer with our range of Gradle interview questions.

Spring
JUNIOR
Tested skills
Duration
35 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Java, Spring

Programming task - Level: Easy

Java | Spring | Currency Exchange Service - Create a currency exchange rate service. It should allow users to fetch information about currency exchange rates and calculate the amount of money they will get after the exchange.

Java
JUNIOR
Tested skills
Duration
35 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Java, Spring

Programming task - Level: Easy

Java | Kafka | Flight tickets reservations - Implement the service for validating data quality which is received from the travel agencies.

Kotlin
JUNIOR
Tested skills
Duration
95 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Kotlin

Programming task - Level: Easy

Kotlin | Spring Boot | Money Heist - Implement two methods according to the requirements to get all the necessary information from the database.

Android
SENIOR
Tested skills
Duration
60 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Java, Android

Programming task - Level: Hard

Android | Bitmap Manipulations - Implement the three operations which should be performed on a selected image prior initiating a share.

Java
JUNIOR
Tested skills
Duration
36 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Java

Programming task - Level: Easy

Java | Spring Boot | Discount microservice - Implement microservice using Spring Boot features.

Jenkins
MIDDLE
Tested skills
Duration
68 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Programming task - Level: Medium

Jenkins | Job DSL | Job Configuration - Complete Jenkins configurations with Jenkins Job DSL.

Code gaps

verifying the most esstential skills in Jenkins.

Java Script
MIDDLE
Tested skills
Duration
80 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Programming task - Level: Medium

Java | Flights manager | Implement an application that is responsible for managing flights data

Programming task - Level: Medium

JavaScript | React | Contact Form - Optimize the fill-out form for site users

android
SENIOR
Tested skills
Duration
195 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Android

Programming task - Level: Hard

Android | Task executor library - Implement the queue of long-running tasks meeting standards of Android multithreading, Android Service, Android Binder specifics and power management.

Android
SENIOR
Tested skills
Duration
165 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Android

Programming task - Level: Hard

Android | Reminder app - Implement missing features in the Reminder application using BroadcastReceivers, Services, Intent scheduling using AlarmManager and Notifications API.

Java
MIDDLE
Tested skills
Duration
55 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Java

Programming task - Level: Medium

Java | Spring Security | Secure POST - Secure an enterprise application by allowing the administrator only to call state changing endpoints.

Spring Security
MIDDLE
Tested skills
Duration
66 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Java, CleanCode

Programming task - Level: Medium

Spring Security - Secure methods to allow only the article author to create and read an article with his name, using method annotations.

Spring Security
MIDDLE
Tested skills
Duration
66 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Java, CleanCode

Programming task - Level: Medium

Spring Security - Secure ArticleService so that it returns only those articles in locale that are equal to the one currenntly used.

Java
MIDDLE
Tested skills
Duration
55 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Java standard API

Programming task

flights manager application, candidate needs to implement two business methods for finding flights between two cities and generating a seats list for a plane. Requires Java knowledge.

Java
JUNIOR
Tested skills
Duration
45 minutes max.
Evaluation
Automatic
Test overview

Choice questions

assessing knowledge of Java standard API

Programming task

Flights manager application, candidate needs to implement two business methods for finding flights and reserving a seat which requires basic knowledge about Java

Recommended roles for Gradle interview questions

  • Junior Android developer
  • Middle Android developer
  • Senior Android developer
  • Backend developer
  • Software engineer
  • Junior Java developer
  • Middle Java developer
  • Senior Java developer

How DevSkiller Gradle interview questions work

RealLifeTesting™ is the driving force behind DevSkiller’s Gradle interview questions. It allows recruiters to screen candidates using realistic challenges, similar to the work they will be expected to carry out every day. With our Gradle interview questions you can analyze your applicants’ knowledge of Gradle, assess their coding ability, test their problem-solving, and time-management skills.

Key features

  • Gain insight into each candidate’s coding skills, not just their academic knowledge
  • Assess each Gradle online test in real-time, anywhere in the world
  • RealLifeTesting™ methodology offers a greater user experience where candidates can use their own IDE, clone to Git, run unit tests, and access Stack Overflow/GitHub/Google for research
  • Various anti-plagiarism tools to ensure test accuracy
  • Automated results that non-technical professionals can understand
  • Gradle interview questions to assess any level

Skills covered by DevSkiller Gradle interview questions

  • Gradle
  • Java
  • Kafka
  • Spring
  • Kotlin
  • Spring Boot
  • Spring Boot JPA
  • Actuator
  • CleanCode
  • Microservices
  • Monitoring
  • Spring
  • Spring Boot
  • CI/CD
  • DevOps
  • Jenkins
  • Job-DSL
  • Android
  • Android SDK
  • Android Binder
  • Android Service
  • Multithreading
  • Groovy
  • Html
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Android
  • Android Service
  • BroadcastReceivers
  • Intent
  • API
  • Spring Security
  • Groovy
  • Spock

What is Gradle?

To know what to look for in a Gradle developer, we first have to ask what is Gradle? It is an open-source build automation tool. It was designed to be flexible enough to build almost any type of software.

Gradle is a general-purpose build tool that makes few assumptions about what you’re trying to build. Gradle makes it easy to build common types of projects, like Java libraries — by adding plugins to create a layer of conventions and prebuilt functionality.

Gradle models its builds as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), essentially configuring a set of tasks together. Gradle can determine the order in which tasks in a task graph need to run, and then proceeds to execute them.

Gradle has several fixed build phases in it’s build lifecycle that your developer should know about. Initialization- creating the environment for the build. Configuration, involving configuring the task graph for the build, including determining which tasks need to run and in which order. Finally there is the execution phase, carrying out the tasks outlined in the configuration phase.

DevSkiller’s Gradle interview questions are the perfect way to screen candidates to make sure you recruit the very best Gradle developers for your business.

Want to get more out of our Gradle interview questions?

Perhaps your business needs require you to get more out of our Gradle online tests? If so, then you can customize our Gradle interview questions to fit your recruitment agenda. You can set the difficulty level, length and even question duration on each individual test. You can monitor applicants in real-time and our plagiarism detectors ensure test validity. Find your next Gradle engineer with DevSkiller’s Gradle developer interview questions and online tests.

Want proof that our Gradle developer interview questions work?

If you think our screening tool sounds great, but you’re a little unsure, no problem. To begin with, some of our past clients felt the same way. Check out the following case study to learn how we helped them:

Ada Health

Ada is a global health company. Their core system connects medical knowledge with intelligent technology to help people manage their health and for medical professionals to deliver effective care.

The company requires skill in technologies such as Kotlin, Java, React Native and many more.  Previously Ada screened technological skills through an on-site task, followed by a team interview. The whole procedure was time consuming so they enlisted DevSkiller’s help.

Thanks to DevSkiller, Ada are now able to gain a broader understanding of each candidate’s experience from an initial technical task, which is carried out prior to interviews taking place. Evaluation for DevSkiller testing is automated, which saves countless hours of time for Ada’s recruitment employees.

Micha Gerwig – Engineering manager at Ada Health

“Not only do we save a considerable amount of time, but the tool also gives us the possibility to collaborate on reviewing the technical test. It also enables us to tailor the on-site experience towards the candidate, for example, which areas to focus on or how difficult the questions should be. Overall, the feedback has been quite positive. Candidates especially enjoy the Code Review task.”

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be a programmer to use DevSkiller?

Don’t worry, you’re not expected to be a technical expert yourself to be able to use DevSkiller. Our own experts have created ready-to-use Gradle interview questions which are specially designed to be easy for technical recruiters to get the best out of. This means you can verify the coding skills of the candidates screened regardless of your own level of technological skill. You can prepare a test from scratch if required.

What do you do about plagiarism?

You need to be able to trust your results, so at DevSkiller we take plagiarism very seriously. We employ a number of anti-plagiarism tools designed to eliminate the chance of plagiarism. We can implement screen recording to check if the candidate is looking at a different screen when undertaking a test, as well as a range of social listening tools. We can also check the candidate’s entered code, question duration, and the way each question was answered. Our database stores answers previously provided, which are cross-checked against new answers coming in. If there is a match, it will flag that the candidate has tried to gain an unfair advantage.

How do candidates respond to DevSkiller Gradle interview questions?

We have received regular feedback from developer candidates that they love the layout of our Gradle developer interview questions. It is important to understand that more often than not, developer testing involves candidates having to recite coding patterns and algorithms. This can be frustrating because it doesn’t assess actual development skills. These kinds of tests can result in a lesser skilled developer progressing, simply because they happen to remember a coding pattern. We don’t leave anything to chance. Our Gradle interview questions challenge candidates with tasks exactly like the work they’ll be doing.

In turn, we hear that candidates relish having the chance to use normal coding tools and conventions like unit testing, and cloning to GIT from a personal IDE. We give developer candidates a chance to demonstrate what they can really do within a fair setting and for that they are thankful.

What is the test duration?

The duration of our Gradle interview questions is flexible. Duration can be set to your own preferences if required. We provide default settings which can be altered. It is also possible to set time limits for individual questions within a test.